The Database

•  There are currently close to 3 million names in the Database. 

• Some 2 million, or 2/3 of the names, come from Pages of Testimony. 

• There are about 100,000 Pages with photos in the Database.  This represents 5% of the Pages.

• The remaining 1 million are gleaned from archival sources and other names computerization projects. 

• The Database contains 1,260,256 million names occurrences of people from Poland; 225,284 from Germany; 198,189 from the former USSR (1938 borders); 163,628 from Romania; 124,591 from Czechoslovakia and 100,000 from the Netherlands.

• The top five occurrences of first names in the Database are Yaacov (110,632), Moshe (88,550), Rachel (88,260), Chana (86,527) and Sara(h) (85,083).  These include name variants in both Latin and Hebrew characters.

• The Database is a work in progress and the above figures may change as we add new names with every periodic update. 

Pages of Testimony

• There are over 2 million Pages of Testimony in the Database. 

• Pages of Testimony are unique forms containing biographical details of individual victims.

• Pages of Testimony have been collected since Yad Vashem’s establishment.  In 1955 the first collection campaign was initiated.

• Pages are issued in 14 languages, including: English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, French, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Italian.  Occasionally Pages were printed also in Serbo-Croatian and Swedish.