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jerusalem (ap) | Israel’s Holocaust museum posted a Web site Monday, Nov. 21, giving Internet users access to biographical information on 3 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators — the most comprehensive database of its kind.

The Yad Vashem museum’s site digitizes the center’s 50 years of work in compiling information on Holocaust victims.

The list — the largest and most detailed available — already can be accessed in both English and Hebrew.

“Yad Vashem undertook to retrieve the names of the Jewish victims and to preserve their memory,’ a message on the site declared. “This is the moral duty of the Jewish people, our last respects to the victims.’

Eager to be part of the computer era, the museum put some 1,500 people to work a decade ago, turning written testimony into digital information, said Esti Yaari, Yad Vashem’s media liaison.

In the past year, workers focused on getting all the data onto the Internet.

“We are also launching an 11th-hour drive to get more information because we realize that time is running out,’ Yaari said.

Yad Vashem hopes to get data on as many of the 6 million Holocaust victims as possible.

According to the Web site, nearly half of the 6 million people killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators are documented in the database.