Help Identify Holocaust Victims by Participating in the Shoah Names Recovery Project of Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem Museum, Jerusalem

For over 50 years, Yad Vashem in Jersusalem has been working with Holocaust Survivors and Jewish communities worldwide to recover the names of the more than 3 million Holocaust victims who remain unidentified. Three million are currently documented at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and in the Central Database of the Shoah Names Recovery Project online at www.yadvashem.org.

The Names Recovery campaign calls upon Survivors, family and friends of Holocaust victims to memorialize them by recording their names, and when available, photos and other biographical data on Internet "Pages of Testimony." The aim of the campaign is to ensure that no Shoah victim--no man, woman or child--will be forgotten.

The task has assumed greater urgency than ever because the generation that can remember the victims is aging and passing away.

"In this 60th year of Israel's founding, it's appropriate to pause and to honor the past. We at JFCS are honored to lend our volunteer and staff resources to The Names Recovery Project," says Dr. Anita Friedman, Executive Director of Jewish Family and Children's Services.

JFCS helps identify those who might remember friends and neighbors who were killed during the Holocaust and trains volunteers to help them create the Pages of Testimony for the online database and the archives at Yad Vashem.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or know of someone who might be able to identify victims, please contact Rachel Kesselman at 415-449-1288 or rachelk@jfcs.org.

To find out more about our Holocaust Survivor Services, visit http://www.jfcs.org/Services/Seniors/Holocaust_Survivors_Services/default.asp.