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Hall of Names

"…I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger.”

David Berger in his last letter, Vilna 1941

Shoah Victims’ Names

Since 1955, Yad Vashem has worked to fulfill its mandate to preserve the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust by collecting their names, the ultimate representation of a person’s identity. More...

The Yad Vashem Archives

The Hall of Names Through the Years

  • Page of Testimony(1956)
  • A visit to the “Room of Names” (1971)
  • The old Hall of Names (1977-2005)
  • Large scale digitization project to scan, decipher and computerize millions of Pages of Testimony (1999)
  • Pages of Testimony awaiting computerization following nationwide collection campaign in Israel (1999)
  • Architectural design sketch of new Hall of Names (2000)
  • Structural construction efforts of new Hall of Names (2001)
  • Memorial file repository containing over 2.5 million Pages of Testimony
  • Hall of Names exhibit of Shoah victims' portraits
  • The Hall of Names today
  • Elie Wiesel searches the names database on the eve of the Internet launch (2004)
  • Global network of names recovery volunteers provide assistance with submitting Pages of Testimony (2008)

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The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names was last updated on 24 March 2011.

In February 2010 the Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project launched a successful radio campaign that helped raise the Israeli public’s consciousness of names collection.

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