# 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]]