Yad Vashem has designated the Hebrew calendar month of Nisan (April 2007), including both Passover and Yom Hashoah, as Names Recovery Month, marked by the simultaneous spearheading of individual grassroots campaigns around the world. Join volunteer activists worldwide to distribute posters and Pages of Testimony to local Jewish community venues and serve as liaisons with local media.
Names Recovery Month is part of the overall 11th hour campaign calling upon people to memorialize Jews murdered in the Holocaust by recording their names, and when available, photos and other biographical data on Pages of Testimony. It has taken upwards of five decades to document over 3.1 million names currently listed in the online Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.
Millions of victims remain unidentified. Yad Vashem urgently calls upon Jewish communities to recover their names through a worldwide Names Recovery Project. Unless we assume collective responsibility for completing this vital mission, some of them may be lost forever. This is a race against time, before those who remember them are no longer with us.
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.
For ideas and resources visit the online Community Outreach guide or contact names.outreach@yadvashem.org.il