Google employee Daniel Patt has created an artificial intelligence platform to help grandchildren of Holocaust victims identify images of loved ones. It’s written by The Times of Israel.

The Numbers to Names (N2N) platform scans the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (USHMM) collection of 34,000 images, as well as photographs of survivors and their descendants.

To use the tool, you need to upload the portrait of the person you are looking for at that time. As a result, the service returns 10 possible matches found in the database.

According to Patt, there is no single list of Holocaust victims today. He believes these efforts are urgent, as the number of survivors is dwindling.

“We hope N2N will help make those connections while the survivors are still with us,” the engineer said.

The creation of Patt’s instrument was inspired by a visit to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw in 2016. At first he worked alone on the project in his spare time. Later, other engineers, researchers, and data scientists joined him.

In the future, the nonprofit hopes to partner with museums, schools, research institutes and other organizations that share a common goal of Holocaust education.

“Looking forward, we want N2N to be an educational resource about the Holocaust and give students the opportunity to contribute directly to the historical record,” Patt said.

Recall that in March 2021, the pedigree company MyHeritage introduced the service Deep Nostalgia to create the effect of movement of static portrait shots.

In April, engineers taught “live” photos how to dance and blow a kiss.

In March 2022, MyHeritage partnered with startup D-ID to launch LiveStory, a tool that makes photos talk.