This database, at the Yad Vashem site, is now home to searchable biographical information on 3 million of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Now that it is online, they are encouraging people to check for their family members, and add any information that is missing. They describe it as a race against time, to record the information of as many of the lost as possible, before they fade completely from memory.

"The online Database creates a link not only with the dead but also among the living, within the Jewish people," said Nobel Laureate Prof. Elie Wiesel as he recently filled out a Page of Testimony for his father, Shlomo. "It strengthens the connections between families, between cities, between communities. Furthermore, it brings a heightened awareness and a deepened sense of remembrance."

I just think this is awe inspiring. I can't think of many things I've come across on the internet that are this worthy of anyone's time and effort. This is just amazing.