# Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names **Domain:** Holocaust remembrance / Archival databases **Doc Type:** Developed Wiki Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collections:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] · [[collections/US-Israel Leadership Alliance|US-Israel Leadership Alliance]] ## Definition Yad Vashem's **Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names** gathers names and biographical information from Pages of Testimony and documentary sources in order to recover the identities of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. ## X Ledger context [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]] treats the database as working memorial infrastructure rather than as a metaphor. Its function is to preserve the named person whom extermination attempted to erase, while provenance keeps the underlying testimony and archival basis reconstructible. ## Sources - [Yad Vashem, Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names](https://www.yadvashem.org/archive/hall-of-names/database.html) - [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]] ## Routes [[wiki/Yad Vashem|Yad Vashem]] · [[wiki/Hall of Names|Hall of Names]] · [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]] · [[articles/gamification/The Golem and The Book of Life|The Golem and The Book of Life]] · [[articles/gamification/The X Ledger|The X Ledger]]