A total of 3,029,930 visitors entered the Yad Vashem website since the uploading of the Central Database of Shoah Victims Names to the Internet just one month ago.
Israel has the highest proportion of visitors - 39%. A third are from North America, 24% from Europe, and 4% from the rest of the globe. In total, visitors from 163 countries are represented in the site’s statistics.
The database is an attempt to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The database contains 3 million names of Shoah (Holocaust) victims so far, compiled over the years through interviews, questionnaires and available documents.
Prior to the uploading of the database, Yad Vashem's website generally averaged 145,000 visitors per month.
”These numbers illustrate the place of the Shoah in the public consciousness, and the desire of people to remember it and know more about its victims,” said Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev. “I hope and believe that people will use this unique tool to submit Pages of Testimony for victims whose names are not yet recorded," he added.
Israel has the highest proportion of visitors - 39%. A third are from North America, 24% from Europe, and 4% from the rest of the globe. In total, visitors from 163 countries are represented in the site’s statistics.
The database is an attempt to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The database contains 3 million names of Shoah (Holocaust) victims so far, compiled over the years through interviews, questionnaires and available documents.
Prior to the uploading of the database, Yad Vashem's website generally averaged 145,000 visitors per month.
”These numbers illustrate the place of the Shoah in the public consciousness, and the desire of people to remember it and know more about its victims,” said Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev. “I hope and believe that people will use this unique tool to submit Pages of Testimony for victims whose names are not yet recorded," he added.