Please register names of family or friends who perished in the Holocaust and those who survived.
Registering can help preserve your story or the names of your family that perished. We will help all Survivors or family members register names with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Survivor Registry, Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s Book of Remembrance project.
Register Victims
Pages of Testimony are individual forms containing the names and biographical details of Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Each Jew who perished during the Holocaust deserves a Page of Testimony. Registering family members with Yad Vashem helps create written witness to their life. Preserve your family’s memory by registering their names now with Yad Vashem.
Yad Vashem defines a Holocaust victim as a Jew who was murdered when his or her country of residence was ruled or occupied by the Nazis or by regimes that collaborated with the Nazis. Jews who died in the few months after the end of WWII because of exhaustion or sickness caused by traumatic Shoah experiences are also considered victims.
Each Holocaust victim, children included, must be registered on a separate Page of Testimony. If a child’s name is unknown, enter "Child" in the Family Status field and specify their gender and parents’ names.
Register Names of Victims by completing this PDF form. Mail it to: Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, c/o Names Registry, 1603 Orrington Ave. Suite 1625, Evanston, IL 60201.
Register Survivors
It is equally as important to remember the names of those who survived, to create a register of those who witnessed the atrocities of the Holocaust. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Survivors Registry considers anyone displaced by the racial, political and ethnic policies of the Nazis, or their allies, who lived until the end of the war a survivor.
This form includes space to register a survivor and spouse (page 1), as well as other family members who are survivors (page 2). Only the names and historical information related to survivors and their family members are displayed to the public. In an effort to protect the privacy of survivors, addresses and phone numbers are neither displayed nor released.
Please pay special attention to the questions regarding locations(s) during the war and include both the place and country when possible. We encourage you to include a photograph of each survivor you register, preferably from around the time of liberation. Please note that we do not return photographs. If you wish to retain the original photograph, we ask that you make a photographic print (not a photocopy), which can be done at many photo developing shops.
Register Names of Survivors by completing this PDF form and mail to: Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, c/o Names Registry, 1603 Orrington Ave. Suite 1625, Evanston, IL 60201.
If you would like to be included in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center’s Book of Remembrance Project, please note that on the form in the available space. Your names can also create a register of the life that flourished in the Midwest after the war.
For questions or form by mail, please contact the project office at 847.491.0905 or by emailing bookofremembrance@hmfi.org.
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