Overview
- Yad Vashem announced the milestone after seven decades of work to restore the identities of Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
- The institution says AI and machine learning could add about 250,000 names by analyzing hundreds of millions of records that were impractical to process manually.
- About one million Jewish victims remain unidentified, and the center says many of those names may never be recovered.
- In May 2024, Yad Vashem reported 4.9 million identified after deploying its own AI software across documents, film footage, cemeteries and other sources.
- The Hall of Names database, available in six languages, compiles personal files and has helped families commemorate loved ones and reconnect with relatives.