Overview
- On Nov. 3, Yad Vashem said it has now documented the names of five million Jews murdered in the Holocaust after seven decades of research.
- Roughly one million victims remain unnamed, and the institution says many of those identities may never be recovered.
- Yad Vashem estimates artificial intelligence and machine learning could help surface about 250,000 additional names by analyzing hundreds of millions of records, building on software first deployed in 2024.
- The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names is available online in six languages and draws heavily on 2.8 million Pages of Testimony submitted by survivors and relatives.
- With about 200,000 survivors still alive, Yad Vashem is pressing for new submissions and will mark the milestone with a Nov. 6 seminar in Jerusalem and a Nov. 9 event in New York.