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 ...

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 ...

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.

How Yad Vashem is helping humanity fight antisemitism Israeli Holocaust museum strives to provide a deeper and more humanized understanding of Holocaust history to combat growing global antisemitism.

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.

Drawing from testimonies, artifacts and histories, it has opened “Touching Memory Theater,” a new project that brings Holocaust remembrance to the stage.The post Center stage at Yad Vashem: A parental ...

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

Monday, which is Holocaust Remembrance Day, brought more than 70,000 people to the IRemember Wall. This year, Facebook International is teaming up with Yad Vashem to encourage Holocaust awareness ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...