Document Victims of the Holocaust

Document Victims of the Holocaust

Genealogists are one of the last remaining groups that can still contribute significantly to Yad Vashem's effort to document all victims of the Holocaust. Their preferred method is to complete and submit a signed document for each individual that perished. The document is called a Page of Testimony ("POT"). These POTs should contain as much information as is known, including any pictures. There are several methods available to researchers for documenting these victims.

  1. Enter the data on a Yad Vashem paper form and submit it to Yad Vashem. See detail on this at their website.

  2. Complete an online submission at the Yad Vashem website.

  3. Sallyann Amdur Sacks-Pikus writes in the As I See It portion of the 2010 Summer (Volume XXVI number 2) edition of Avotaynu, "Peter Lande describes the myriad of riches at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, maybe the best of all the city's resources - and one of the two premier sources for Holocaust research. The other site is Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Moishe Miller and Werner Frank describe two totally different, creative methodologies they have developed to automate creation of Pages of Testimony, a real boon both to Yad Vashem and those of us with so many potential submissions."For researchers with large amounts of data per individual and/or many victims to document, there are two automated solutions:
    • In the 2010 Summer Avotaynu, Werner L. Frank of the JGS of Conejo Valley outlines a way to use software reports to create a submission to Yad Vashem.
    • The same journal publication also outlines the method to produce actual signed pages, submission-ready, directly from your genealogy software data.