Urgent Call to Action from Yad Vashem

April 23, 2006

Register Names of Holocaust Victims Who Perished

"The memory of millions of Holocaust victims will pass into oblivion as those that remember them leave us," warned Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate. "Now is the time for the Jewish people to work together to register the unrecorded names."

In fulfilling its mandate to memorialize and preserve the legacy of each individual Jew who died at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators, Yad Vashem created The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names. Now available at http://www.yadvashem.org , the site is a revolutionary milestone in Holocaust remembrance that provides an opportunity to search for names, photographs and brief histories of over three million Holocaust victims, while also enabling the on-line submission of names, photographs and documents.

As many names are still missing, Yad Vashem is calling upon those who possess information on victims that are not recorded in the Database to urgently submit these missing names. Stressing the fact that testimonies and names given in the past to organizations other than Yad Vashem are probably NOT in the Central Database, Yad Vashem recommends conducting a search prior to the submission of names.

Victims’ names may be registered by submitting a form known as a Page of Testimony on-line. Paper forms are also available in several languages and may be downloaded from Yad Vashem’s website, or requested at: names.research@yadvashem.org.il; Tel: +972-2-6443582 or Fax: +972-2-6443579

To search or register a name, click here: http://www1.yadvashem.org/remembrance/names/site/home_names.html

For more information, click here: http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/IY_HON_Entrance