Memorial sheet
The memorial sheet is a form that Yad Vashem designed to record the individual identity of the six million murdered Jews. The forms are submitted by Holocaust survivors , surviving family members, or friends. With the names, biographical information and possibly photos, they represent symbolic gravestones of the victims. Yad Vashem's concern is to commemorate each individual victim and to restore his or her identity and personality. For many survivors, this is the only evidence that these murdered people once lived.
As the first Israeli collection 2013, the Yad Vashem memorial leaves collection was on the list of UNESCO -Programms "Memory of the World" ( "Memory of the World" included).
This program attests to the need for the preservation and accessibility of unique, irreplaceable documentary heritage in different parts of the world and has been approved by the Director General of UNESCO.
The central database of the names of the Holocaust victims contains not only the memorial sheets but also names from various archival sources, which brings the total number of registered names to four and a half million.