As the world memorializes Shoah victims on the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII, we are witness to the rapid end of the generation of Holocaust survivors. As this generation passes, so passes the memory of the millions of Shoah victims who are yet to be recorded. As leaders of Jewish institutions, who have the ability to reach into the Jewish community, we have an obligation to urge those who possess the memory to share those names for future generations.
Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names - now available anywhere in the world at www.yadvashem.org commemorates and preserves the legacy of each individual Jew who died at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. A revolutionary milestone in Holocaust remembrance, this site provides an opportunity to search for names, photographs and brief histories of over three million Holocaust victims who died because they were Jewish. A singularly unique resource in scope, content and accessibility, the Database also allows users to record names and submit photos and documents on-line.
Join the worldwide 11th hour campaign to gather names of all victims of the Holocaust
As many names are still missing, those who have information on victims that are not in listed in the Database are urgently requested to submit them. This year, we call upon Jewish communities taking part in the "Unto Every Person There is a Name" program, to continue to collect names as you have in the past, but to use this unprecedented opportunity to incorporate the Database into the names collection effort.

To submit names on-line via the website – go to www.yadvashem.org - click The Central Database of Shoah Victim's Names and click-Submit New Names on the search page.
* Use of the database is free of charge

To submit names via the paper form, known as a Page of Testimony download here.
Forms may also be ordered from Yad Vashem:
via e-mail: names.research@yadvashem.org.il
Tel: +972-2-6443582 or Fax: +972-2-6443579

For a general bulletin and guide for activities using the Database, click here

For additional ideas and assistance in this effort contact
names.outreach@yadvashem.org.il

For more information about the Database click here.

Of the millions who have visited the website—from 175 countries—since the Database was launched in November 2004, thousands of people have written moving personal accounts of how they reconnected with the past or discovered a part of their history they did not know. "The Database allowed my family in the United States to discover family who survived that now live in Jerusalem," wrote Bob Korren from New York. "This is a powerful site which commemorates those who perished and also allows long lost family to reconnect."
In February, 2005 two sisters, separated in October 1944 in the Budapest ghetto in Hungary, were reunited after 61 years as a result of a search of the Yad Vashem Names Database conducted by the granddaughter of one of the sisters. To see the full story click here.

On behalf of Yad Vashem, thank you for helping to ensure that every Holocaust victim has a place in our collective memory.