Yad Vashem invites you to join the historic mission of the Jewish people to memorialize every individual Jew who perished in the Holocaust through the collection of the ultimate representation of their identity: their names. To date, half of the six million victims have been recorded in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names (www.yadvashem.org), where one may access their brief histories and, when available, their photographs, and submit additional names online.


Millions of victims may be forgotten forever, unless we recover their names today.

We are pleased to offer a new online community outreach guide to initiate local Names Recovery Campaigns. Packed with valuable resources and materials, this free guide will enable Jewish communities to plan and implement meaningful memorial programs, names collection events and related activities around Yom Hashoah - Israel’s national Holocaust Remembrance Day (this year, 25 April) and other significant dates in the Jewish calendar, such as 10th Tevet, 17th Tammuz, 9th Av, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The guide is designed for use either by an individual or group, such as a synagogue, community center, welfare agency, survivor and next generation group, university or school. You can use it to call upon members of your community or organization to complete a “Page of Testimony” for each unregistered victim, or to volunteer to assist others with this urgent task.

To access the Community Outreach Guide visit:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/names/whyCollect.htm

Join today, before the generation that remembers is no longer with us.

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