Yad Vashem: The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names

Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based Holocaust memorial organization, goes live today with a searchable database containing over three million names of Holocaust victims.

Six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and its collaborators in the Shoah. Yad Vashem undertook to retrieve the names of the Jewish victims and to preserve their memory.This is the moral duty of the Jewish People; our last respects to the victims. The computerized database prepared by Yad Vashem, with the assistance of other institutions, now includes the names of approximately half of these victims. We make their names accessible here, in reverence and awe, determined to persevere until the last name is retrieved.