Yad Vashem UK – Guardian of the Memory
It is the duty of the living to remember and honour the memory of those who perished, to ensure they are never forgotten and that the tragedy of the Shoah can never be denied.

With your help, we hope to enlist every member of Anglo-Jewry and members of other faiths wishing to participate, to take on that duty and become a Guardian of the Memory of an individual Victim of the Holocaust.

Each Guardian will receive the name and personal details of one victim, recorded on the Yad Vashem database. As a Guardian, they will pledge to light a memorial candle in honour of that person each Yom Hashoah and should they wish make a donation to be used to advance the cause of Holocaust Education and Awareness in the UK, both nationally and locally.

The name of the Guardian of each victim will be entered into a permanent record to symbolise that the victim will be remembered.

Through word of mouth and via this web site, we aim to recruit Guardians through every synagogue, school and organisation in the Jewish community, as well as to encourage the participation of members of other faiths.

We hope that eventually every one of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust will be remembered in this way.

Yad Vashem in Jerusalem is making one final effort, through its ‘11th Hour’ campaign, to add names to reduce the three million people whose details are still missing and therefore remain unrecorded. It is essential that they are recorded on the database at www.yadvashem.org before it is too late, so that their lives may be honoured and the tragedy of their deaths, remembered.