Hall of Names

In 1968, a "Names Room" was established at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, in which original Pages of Testimony were stored in alphabetical order.

With the beginning of the large wave of immigration of Jews from the Former Soviet Union in the 1990s, the rate at which Pages of Testimony were submitted doubled to some 3,000 per month.

In 1990, Yad Vashem began to glean names of Holocaust victims from deportation lists as well as camp and ghetto prisoner records, prepared by the Nazis and their allies.

With the dedication of the new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem in 2005, the Hall of Names was moved to that location.

These Pages are not accessible to the general public, but may be viewed in the computer center or online at the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names on the Yad Vashem website.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States Military, General Martin E. Dempsey at the Hall of Names