YAD VASHEM PAGES OF TESTIMONY

(left) A sample of the more than two-hundred Pages of Testimony submitted for Jewish Holocaust victims who lwere born in Zolynia or who lived there before or during the Second World War. This document memorializes Gitel Orbach. She was born in Zolynia in 1920 and died at the Belzec camp in 1942. The form was submitted by her brother, Mordekai, in 1955.

Yad Vashem, based in Jerusalem, is Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Since 1953, Yad Vashem has worked to document and preserve the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. In November 2004, Yad Vashem made available online its Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.

The database is made up mostly of "Pages of Testimony," one-page forms with basic biographical information about people who died in the Shoah. They are filled out by survivors, remaining family members or friends of those who were lost. Other sources of names include various historical documents and records.

So far, the database contains some three million names, about half of the Jews lost in the Holocaust. The database is constantly growing, and if you have information on people not in the database yet, please consider filling out a Pages of Testimony form and recording their names for posterity. The forms can be filled in and submitted online or downloaded for mailing at www.yadvashem.org.

Following are the names of 221 Jews in the current database who were born in Zolynia, lived in Zolynia before the war or who lived in Zolynia during the war. There is a separate list of 23 Jews who were born in or lived in Grodzisko Dolne, Korniaktow and Rakszawa. Also shown is some basic information when available and the source of the listing. Please visit the Yad Vashem web site to search for additional names, to learn more about the database and other remembrance projects, and to submit additions and corrections. There is currently a backlog of forms which have been submitted but not yet added to the online database. Names which have been sent in and don't yet appear in the database should be added in the near future.