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Mara, daughter of Yitzhak and Bracha Coblic, was born in 1936 in Chisinau, Romania. Mara and her family were interned in the Chisinua ghetto, where she and her mother perished (date of death unknown)
The Shoah Victims’ Names Recovery Project aims to memorialize each individual Jew murdered in the Holocaust by recording their names, biographical details and photographs on special forms created by Yad Vashem, called Pages of Testimony.
While 4.8 million of the six million victims are documented in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, close to 1.5 million will remain unknown unless we submit their names today!
Please help recover the names of those who were murdered before there is no one left who can remember their time here on this earth.
Submit Pages of Testimony today so they will be remembered for generations to come.
Commemoration and Activities
Choose activities from the following list to commemorate the people who were murdered whose names you have collected during your campaign.
- Create a unique memorial board or Yizkor book to place in your synagogue, community or organization with the names you have collected.
- Hold a names recitation ceremony with the names you have collected during your campaign. For information about the annual Yom Hashoah names reading ceremony, see "Unto every person there is a name" on the Yad Vashem website.
- Search the Database for names of people from a particular region to read during a ceremony.
- "Adopt" a community. Work to recover names of Jews from a specific area who were murdered in the Holocaust.
Expand your Holocaust knowledge using the Online Database:
- Create your own family tree and find out how many people in your family were in the Holocaust.
- Click on the photos of the people on the Online Database of Shoah Victims' Names search page to learn about their lives. click "Advanced Search" to search for victims who have the same birth month as you, or the same first or last names.
Materials Toolkit
| Item | Suggested Use |
|---|---|
| Page of Testimony Flyer | Form for submitting names of Holocaust (Shoah) victims. |
| Shoah Survivors and Refugees Registration Form | Form for submitting names of Shoah Survivors and Refugees. |
| Brochure | Promotional pamphlet including POT and instructions |
| Poster | Display in public areas. To order copies in English, Hebrew, or Russian please email names.proj@yadvashem.org.il |
| Bookmark | To promote the project |
| POT Guidelines | Who should complete a Page of Testimony? For whom? |
| Remembering the Markowicz Family from Trzebinia, Poland | All five members of the Markowicz family perished during the Holocaust. These are Pages of Testimony submitted to Yad Vashem by a relative in their memory. |
| A Rabbi’s Message | Sample message for Rabbis |
| Working with Survivors | Use at volunteer training session |