Photo: Yad Vashem
Google engineer Daniel Patt has built a website that uses facial recognition to identify anonymous faces in Holocaust photos. While thousands of photographs and films of Holocaust victims and survivors taken before and during the war exist, the names of about one million of the estimated six million Jewish people killed during the Holocaust are still unknown. Another 3.5 million were displaced, persecuted, or sent to concentration camps, but survived. Patt was inspired to create From Numbers to Names (N2N) after visiting the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Poland in 2016 and noting how many of the faces in its photo collection were unidentified. Anyone can upload a photo at the N2N website and AI-based facial recognition software searches a database of 500,000 archived Holocaust photos and videos for the 10 best matches. Patt, who works on N2N in his free time, hopes to add another 700,000 Holocaust photos and videos to its searchable database.
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