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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Israel's Yad Vashem memorial announced that after seven decades of research and document collection, it has reached a major milestone: identifying the names of 5 million Jewish victims murdered during the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.
"Let each of the appointed Jews, and each of the remaining millions of Jews whose names have not yet been found and may never be found, be a blessing to all of us," scholar Dr. Walter Reich told JNS. "And a warning to all of us."
The Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem has managed to identify five million Shoah victims by name in seven decades - a milestone and a commitment to the future.
Yad Vashem says it has identified 5 million Holocaust victims with help of AI
(JTA) — 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…
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