Israel’s main Holocaust memorial centre, Yad Vashem, has identified the names of five million Jewish people killed by the Nazis during World War II. This is a crucial achievement in their mission to name all six million victims.
Yad Vashem’s chairman, Dani Dayan, called this a major milestone but stressed that their work is not finished, as they must still search for the remaining one million names. A key part of their effort relies on “Pages of Testimony,” which are simple memorial forms filled out by survivors and victims’ families; these pages alone have collected over 2.8 million names.
The centre is also looking to use new tools, like artificial intelligence, to help identify more victims in the future. This global project represents a unified, moral duty to restore the personal identity of every life erased during the Holocaust.
