
Every Name Is a World
The Nazis did not only seek to murder Jews — they sought to obliterate each and every one, as if they had never lived.
One young man said it simply. David Berger, a Jew from Poland murdered at just 22, wrote before his death: “I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger.”
With your help his plea has become our mission.
Yad Vashem has turned his plea into our mission. With the support of many dedicated individuals like yourself, we have searched the globe for the names of Holocaust victims. After 70 years of tireless work, five million names have been recovered. Five million lives restored to memory.
Yet nearly one million victims remain nameless — and time is running out.
Many survivors are gone. Documents are deteriorating. Traditional sources have given almost all they can. That’s why Yad Vashem is turning to advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence to uncover names hidden in fading testimonies, handwritten letters, and forgotten records.
This is where you come in. Please act now to ensure that no name – no life - is ever forgotten.
Every gift helps:
- Acquire and process additional archival documents
- Transcribe testimonies
- Utilize advanced tools to recover names
- Share our discoveries with the world
— through the monumental Book of Names and the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names.
With your help another name can be recovered, another promise kept. You can be the reason someone is remembered. Because every name is a world — and no world should ever be forgotten.
Give now — because #EveryNameIsAWorld.