Biblo Marie Antoinette Jean-Pierre could not stomach the news. She ached to know the truth about the rumor that her friend of 10 years was among those who perished during Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake.

“Somebody told me he died, and I just couldn’t believe it,” said Jean-Pierre, 51, who considered Dieuseul Lajeunesse as close as a brother.

At a friend’s suggestion, Jean-Pierre turned to 112Haiti.com, a website featuring a virtual memorial wall that lists the names and information about hundreds of victims of the earthquake, which occurred two years ago Thursday.

After scrolling through the list of names, Jean-Pierre’s worst fears were realized. Despite learning that Lajeunesse was gone, Jean-Pierre says she’s grateful to the website and Color of Hope, the Palm Beach County organization that operates it.

“I just thought ‘wow,’ ’’ said Jean-Pierre, who added another friend’s name to the virtual wall. “But at least I know now.”

The virtual wall at Color of Hope is among a slew of efforts in the United States and Haiti to remember the estimated 316,000 people who died during the 7.0 magnitude quake. At Color of Hope, where the 112Haiti.com site is one of its most successful projects, a team collects names and verifies the pictures and ages before they’re uploaded.

Color of Hope leaders are currently negotiating with Boynton Beach to build a permanent memorial wall to the earthquake’s victims, said Ed Shakespierre, who created the group.

“Everyone forgets, but with a wall these people will not be forgotten,” Shakespierre said.

Memorial walls dedicated to quake victims are becoming a reality in cities with large Haitian immigrant communities.

Bonnie Dixon, executive vice president at Maple Grove Cemetery in Queens, N.Y., began planning a memorial about a year ago. But in a unique approach for the development of a memorial, Dixon has tried to mobilize Haitians in Queens to collect names and information from family and friends who have lost loved ones.

Dixon has spent the past year spreading the word about the wall by contacting Haitian immigrant organizations, art groups, pastors and advertising on a Haitian radio station. Despite her efforts to include the Haitian community, there has been a lack of response, she said.

One Haitian pastor, she said, told her that Haitians are a very private people.

“They don’t like to give information,’’ she said. “They don’t like to memorialize.”

While the idea to build a memorial appears to have come to a standstill, the project still has retained much support. U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., favors the memorial, and the development has full board approval at Maple Grove. The local Haitian community will not have to pay for the wall, Dixon said.

Honor students at Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Jamaica Estates are helping to collect names but so far they have only collected a couple dozen.

“It takes an entire village,” said Carl Ballenas, a social studies teacher, whose students are spearheading the collections.

Nicole Hollant-Denis, an architect recognized for her work in creating the African Burial Ground in Manhattan, contacted Ballenas and Dixon to offer her help with the memorial project.

Hollant-Denis, who lost two cousins in the quake, has already begun designing the international memorial in Titanyen, just outside Port-au-Prince. Although the project is in its preliminary stages, Hollant-Denis said she has already spoken to Haitian President Michel Martelly to rally support.

The memorial will feature concentric rings that symbolize the epicenter of the earthquake. Hollant-Denis refers to the site as the “Epicenter of Triumph.” A graphic depiction of the memorial will be unveiled in February.

“It’s about seeing the world through a satellite view, and becoming more comfortable,” she said.

Hollant-Denis is looking to build simple memorial walls in other cities. Prospective locations include Central Park in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Miami. She hopes to include Maple Grove in the mix.

Dolores Dominique-Neptune is also working on a memorial, but this one in Haiti. On the first anniversary of the quake, Dominique-Neptune, who lost her son in the quake, helped to lead a Haitian government-sponsored effort to identify victims. Surviving friends and family members were invited to visit city halls in all quake-affected communities to record the names in a book in hopes of one day memorializing the victims at St. Christopher, the mountain north of the capital in Titanyen where victims are buried in four mass graves.