Yad Vashem, the world’s preeminent Holocaust memorial center, is dedicated to
keeping alive for future generations the memory of the 6 million Jews who
perished at the hands of the German Nazis and their collaborators.
But its World Holocaust Remberance
Center — a source for documentation used by scholars worldwide — is
overwhelmed with difficult-to-find digital media documenting the lives of
victims and survivors.
The Jerusalem-based organization is turning to AI to help identify, organize
and link photos and other historical documents amid its ocean of data, for
easier discovery. That’s because the documentation, gathered over decades of
submissions and discoveries, and now almost fully digitized, is a source for
Holocaust scholars globally.
A destination for a million visitors each year — six U.S. presidents have
visited the site — Yad Vashem has archives that include unique, searing video
testimonies, short films, photos, personal written accounts, Nazi documentation,
and audio files. In addition to remembering Hitler’s victims, it pays tribute to
the non-Jews who put their lives at risk trying to save them. Read more>>>
