Yad Vashem began collecting “pages of testimony” commemorating the names and details of victims’ lives in 1954. The process of computerizing the database began in 1994 and the project’s ...

Amnesty International UK claimed Gaza has the highest journalist death toll in modern history, prompting criticism for ...

For the last 20 years, the Yad Vashem database of names has been digital, and now, the Book of Names makes the experience of searching for lost family and friends a more personal experience.

Together with the effort at finding names, Yad Vashem is also working to correct errors in its database, including duplicate names and completely erroneous information. In 2013, a similar ...

Israel’s Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, launched an online database of 3 million Holocaust victims. Beginning Monday, the database, previously available only at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, will be ...

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, has launched a groundbreaking initiative called the Touching Memory Theater. In a powerful new approach to Holocaust education ...

Looking ahead, Allen seeks to leverage technology, including AI, to enhance Yad Vashem’s educational and research efforts. The museum’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names includes more than ...

Chairman of Yad Vashem Dani Dayan at Auschwitz to observe the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, January 27, 2025, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center says it is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in a global fashion, together with Jewish and non-Jewish communities worldwide ...

The art exhibit is one of two Holocaust-related events Yad Vashem that were organized in New York. The second was the dedication of a street on East 67th Street and 3rd Avenue as Yad Vashem Way.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial based in Jerusalem, is creating a global name-reading initiative to mark Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Yad Vashem’s Holocaust survivor art exhibit at New York’s City Hall. (Yad Vashem) A unique Holocaust art exhibition opened this week in New York’s City Hall. In “The Wandering Jew,” a 1947 ...