Plan your Visit To Yad Vashem

Sun-Thurs: 08:30-17:00
Fridays and holiday eves: 08:30-14:00
Saturday and Jewish holidays – Closed

Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Shoah Survivors and Refugees Registration Forms

Yad Vashem has collected some 80,000 Survivors and Refugees Registration Forms since 1998. The goal of the forms is twofold: to provide historical documentation about Shoah survivors; and to provide a better understanding of the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust in general.

Survivor Registration Forms should be filled out for any Jew who lived under Nazi rule or occupation, or the rule of collaborating regimes during the war, who was in danger of death and was alive at the end of October 1945. Forms should also be submitted for Jewish refugees who barely managed to flee their homes before the Nazi invasion.

The form includes fields for biographical details before, during and after the war including: name, place, camps, ghettos, living under false identity, details of liberation, DP camps, as well as a brief personal description of the events of the Shoah as they impacted the survivor/refugee's life. The public may submit forms for a survivor/refugee who is no longer alive.

Beginning with January 2021 Yad Vashem has given access to the public, within the online Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names, to most of the survivors' names originated in these forms as well as in a number of other sources. Restrictions required by personal privacy concerns were duly implemented. Yad Vashem plans to continue uploading more survivors' names from additional sources.

Please send forms to Yad Vashem, Hall of Names, P.O.B. 3477, Jerusalem 9103401, Israel, together with a copy of any post war identity document and, if available, a photo of the survivor.

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