JERUSALEM - Researchers in Israel are turning to artificial intelligence to comb through piles of records to try to identify hundreds of thousands of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust whose names are missing from official memorials.
"It's very hard for a human being to do it - just to go over everything and not miss any details," Esther Fuxbrumer, head of software development at the centre, told Reuters. The AI system, developed over the past two years to sift through records in English, Hebrew, German, Russian and other languages, is currently undergoing tests.
In one case, they found information about Yehudit and Ruth Rosenbaum, two twin four-and-a-half-year-old sisters from Romania who were taken to Auschwitz. Yehudit survived. Ruth was murdered.