לזכר עולם · In Eternal Memory
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Each star in the sky bears a name. Each name carries a life.
We are returning the heavens to those who were taken from the earth.
Why we exist
"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
— Elie Wiesel, Night
In recent years, bad-faith actors — seeking to rehabilitate Nazism or deny its crimes — have circulated deliberately distorted figures, claiming the number of Jewish victims has been fabricated or inflated. They cite no historians. They rely on manufactured doubt.
The documented evidence is overwhelming and unambiguous. Six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. This figure is not contested among historians. It is established through Nazi Germany's own meticulous records, survivor testimonies, the findings of the Nuremberg Trials, and decades of rigorous scholarship at institutions worldwide.
Yad Vashem — Israel's official Holocaust memorial and research center in Jerusalem — has documented the names of over five million individual victims and continues the work. This project draws from those names to give every recoverable soul a star to call their own, and to make visible, through the act of naming, the staggering human scale of what was lost.
Our goal of six million stars is not symbolic. It is the count. We will not stop until every name has a place in the sky.
The historical record
Holocaust denial is not a scholarly debate. It is a political weapon. The historical consensus, built on millions of primary documents, is settled.
When online personalities circulate figures like 271,000 — a number invented to minimize and mislead — they are not raising questions. They are perpetuating a lie designed to rehabilitate those who committed the worst crime of the 20th century. Every star named here is an answer to that lie.
Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
Search documented victims from the Yad Vashem database. Each person you find lived a life — a family, a home, a future that was taken. Name a star in their memory.
Searching the Stars of David memorial database. For the complete Yad Vashem archive of 5+ million names, visit collections.yadvashem.org ↗
Name a star
A donation of $15 names one star in honor of a Holocaust victim. The star is permanently catalogued in our memorial registry, and you will receive a certificate of dedication by email. Net proceeds support Israeli charities, to be announced as the project grows.
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The memorial registry
Every name here was once spoken aloud at a dinner table, called across a schoolyard, written in a letter. These names are now written in the sky.