The millions of testimonials of Holocaust survivors kept at Vad Vashem in Jerusalem are to be included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. The collection of ‘pages of testimony’ - a form issued by Yad Vashem in efforts to document the lives of Holocaust survivors - was started in 1954 and contains today about 2.6 million testimonials.
The forms were filled out by the relatives and friends of the victims. The testimonials are a crucial part of Yad Vashem's project to document the names of all the victims of the Holocaust. So far, the project has recorded the names of some 4.2 million Shoah victims.
The register of the United Nations' educational and cultural organization is not a physical collection but a list. The items in the register remain in their original locations.
The register was established in 1995 and includes 299 unique items and collections from around the world that bear significance on the world's heritage. The Yad Vashem collection is the first Israeli entry in this forum.
