Yad Vashem finds 5 million Holocaust victims’ names

Nov 24, 2025
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Yad Vashem has recovered the names of five million Jews of the six million murdered in the Holocaust new technologies like AI and machine learning. There are still an estimated one million names of Jewish victims who are unknown and many will likely remain so forever. The names are compiled in Yad Vashem's Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names.

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