Overview
- About one million victims remain unidentified, and the memorial cautions many names may never be recovered.
- Yad Vashem estimates that AI and machine-learning tools could surface around 250,000 additional names by processing hundreds of millions of documents.
- The online repository is available in six languages and includes hundreds of thousands of consolidated personal files detailing individual lives and fates.
- Leaders framed the step as both a milestone and a moral duty to restore each person’s identity, with Dani Dayan highlighting the human life behind every name.
- The institution will present the five-million mark at a November 6 seminar in Jerusalem and at a November 9 Yad Vashem USA Foundation event in New York.