US EditionYad Vashem Identifies 5 Million Holocaust Victims
- Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, said on Nov 3 it identified five million Holocaust victims' names, over 80% of the estimated six million murdered, in the central online database.
- Researchers reconstructed victims' identities from witness Pages of Testimony and archival sources, as Yad Vashem said no single list existed due to Nazi death register omissions since the 1950s effort began.
- Yad Vashem's algorithms and AI-powered software cross-reference 2.8 million Pages of Testimony and hundreds of thousands of personal files in an online database in six languages.
- For many families, the database has reunited branches separated for decades, helping families worldwide commemorate relatives and confirm fates through the Names Database at Yad Vashem.
- Yad Vashem says artificial intelligence and machine learning could recover around 250,000 more names, warns 90% of survivors may be gone by 2040, and will hold a seminar on Thursday, November 6, 2025.
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Five million of the more than six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust have now been identified by name, according to the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Artificial intelligence has been used to identify a further 250,000 names.
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JERUSALEM >> Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, and with the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday.
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Cleveland Jewish NewsYad Vashem says it has identified 5 million Holocaust victims: ‘Behind each name is a life that mattered’
Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial, says it has reached a major milestone in its efforts to uncover the identities of all of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust, crossing the 5-million name threshold with the help of AI. That leaves 1 million names still unknown from the tally of 6 million murdered Jews that is synonymous with the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II. Two years ago, Yad Vashem inaugurated a 26.5 foot-long “B…
5 Million Holocaust Victims Identified. AI Will Help Identify 2,50,000 More
Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, and with the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday.
Yad Vashem has now identified 5 million of the Holocaust's victims by name
AI and machine learning have helped advance Yad Vashem's efforts to identify as many Holocaust victims as possible. The technology will enable researchers to add hundreds of thousands of more names in the years ahead
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