June 26, 2022

Times of Israel: Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition

Times of Israel: Google engineer identifies anonymous faces in WWII photos with AI facial recognition. “Walking past the countless photos of Holocaust survivors and victims at Warsaw’s POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in 2016, New York-native Daniel Patt was haunted by the possibility that he was passing the faces of his own relatives without even knowing it…. he set to work creating and developing From Numbers to Names (N2N), an artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition platform that can scan through photos from prewar Europe and the Holocaust, linking them to people living today.”

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June 24, 2022

Catholic News Agency: Records of Jews who sought Vatican help during Holocaust to go public

Catholic News Agency: Records of Jews who sought Vatican help during Holocaust to go public. “Relatives of Holocaust survivors and victims can now look through the files of more than 2,700 Jews who sought help through Vatican channels to escape Nazi persecution before and during the Second World War. The archives have gone public on the internet at the request of Pope Francis.”

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May 2, 2022

BusinessWire: Arolsen Archives’ #everynamecounts Project Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Uncover Information on Victims of Nazi Persecution (PRESS RELEASE)

BusinessWire: Arolsen Archives’ #everynamecounts Project Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help Uncover Information on Victims of Nazi Persecution (PRESS RELEASE). “A team of volunteers from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has built an artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution that helps extract information on victims of Nazi persecution from documents in the Arolsen Archives 40 times faster than previous efforts.”

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March 14, 2022

Fredonia State University of New York: SUNY Fredonia archives preserves Holocaust survivors’ memories

Fredonia State University of New York: SUNY Fredonia archives preserves Holocaust survivors’ memories. “How Holocaust survivors who relocated to western New York recalled their German camp experiences in interviews they gave more than three decades ago have been preserved in a digitalization project undertaken by Special Collections and Archives at SUNY Fredonia.” The interviews are not yet available online; that happens later this spring.

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March 14, 2022

PRNewswire: The Blue Card Launches Podcast to Provide Holocaust Survivors a Voice, Now Available on Spotify and Anchor (PRESS RELEASE)

PRNewswire: The Blue Card Launches Podcast to Provide Holocaust Survivors a Voice, Now Available on Spotify and Anchor (PRESS RELEASE). “The Blue Card, a national non-profit organization assisting Holocaust survivors in need, recently launched their podcast on Monday, February 14, with their first guest being Holocaust survivor Laszlo Adler. In this series entitled Stories of The Holocaust, Masha Pearl, Executive Director of The Blue Card interviews survivors about their Holocaust experience, how they navigate their trauma, and the life lessons which have helped shape their perspective on prejudice and justice.”

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February 8, 2022

University of Massachusetts Amherst: Holocaust Survivor Lists Digitized For The First Time

University of Massachusetts Amherst: Holocaust Survivor Lists Digitized For The First Time. “Hundreds of pages with the names of Holocaust survivors relocated to Displaced Persons Camps in Austria and Germany have now been reprinted and digitized. The extensive lists have never been available together, and the original volumes exist in only a few libraries worldwide. Thanks to a collaboration of the Robert S. Cox Special Collections and University Archives Research Center in the UMass Amherst Libraries and Schoen Books of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, they are now available on the open web, enabling families of survivors, genealogists and researchers to have access to the vital information they contain.”

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February 6, 2022

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Digital project focuses on Nebraska’s Holocaust stories

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Digital project focuses on Nebraska’s Holocaust stories. “Beth Dotan has worked in the Holocaust education field for many years, including at the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Israel and as the founding director of the Institute for Holocaust Education in Omaha. In pursuing her doctorate at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, she saw an opportunity to continue that work and focus specifically on Nebraska’s survivors and liberators.”

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January 28, 2022

University of Tübingen: Database records Nazi victims in the Tübingen anatomy

University of Tübingen and machine-translated translated from German: Database records Nazi victims in the Tübingen anatomy. “1078 people were handed over to the anatomy department of the University of Tübingen after their death during the Nazi era – without having given their consent during their lifetime. The names and biographical data are now recorded in a research database, the first of its kind at a German university. The research project Gräberfeld X, an initiative of the University of Tübingen and the university town of Tübingen, brought together biographical data and all available anatomical information.”

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January 27, 2022

Radio Prague International: New app tracks Holocaust as it happened in Prague streets

Radio Prague International: New app tracks Holocaust as it happened in Prague streets. “On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, the Czech Academy of Sciences has launched a new mobile application, created together with the Multicultural Centre Prague and the Terezín Initiative Institute. Called MemoGIS Prague, it enables users to study the history of the Holocaust through an interactive map.”

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January 24, 2022

In this new exhibit, VR helps Holocaust survivors tell their stories (Fast Company)

Fast Company: In this new exhibit, VR helps Holocaust survivors tell their stories. “The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center has long focused on honoring the memory of people murdered during the Holocaust and preserving the stories of those who survived. Now a new pair of short virtual reality films will enable visitors to hear those stories while experiencing immersive visuals that help explain the survivors’ experiences.”

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January 11, 2022

Jerusalem Post: Yad Vashem partners with JewishGen on Holocaust genealogy database

Jerusalem Post: Yad Vashem partners with JewishGen on Holocaust genealogy database. “Yad Vashem – known universally as the World Holocaust Remembrance Center – will enter a partnership with The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s ‘Living Memorial of the Holocaust’ project, as well as the museum’s Jewish genealogy affiliate JewishGen, with the intention of sharing data on genealogical records.”

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December 16, 2021

BBC: Dutch MP ordered to delete Covid Holocaust social media posts

BBC: Dutch MP ordered to delete Covid Holocaust social media posts. “A right-wing Dutch MP has been ordered to delete social media posts comparing Covid restrictions to the Holocaust. Thierry Baudet, leader of the Forum for Democracy party, had said on Twitter that unvaccinated people were ‘the new Jews’ and ‘those who look away from the exclusions’ were ‘the new Nazis’.”

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