Vision

Everyone should know their ancestors and family stories – who came before them and how the lives they lived shape one's destiny. Jewish identity is rooted in zakhor—the thread binding generation to generation. 85 % of Jewish records lie hidden, scattered, or endangered, leaving millions unable to reclaim their past. LDVDF rescues and makes accessible those ordinary yet priceless traces—birth registers, Yizkor books, immigration files—to knit into a shared, living story. We created JCat, the first free global catalog of Jewish documents, powered by AI and crowdsourcing, to surface the long tail records commercial sites ignore. We pair this with Weekly News Nosh and JDays, so remembrance thrives in daily life, not just in archives. Safeguarding Jewish memory is more than preservation; it is resistance, resilience, and the promise that every Jewish descendant can know who they are and pass that knowledge forward. The future belongs to those who remember.

Goals

1. 1.Conduct surveys in at least 30 countries simultaneously for the more than 350 historic record types.
2. 2.Create computer interfaces to extract relevant information from existing catalogs and databases held by partner archives.
3. 3.Utilize Artificial Intelligence to survey and assess digital archives and automatically create catalog entries realizing more than 10,000 times improvement in time and cost to survey.