Blanche Fixer recalls hiding from the Nazis while they searched for it under a bed.
Blanche claims, “I felt them searching the bed, and I told myself not to make a breath, not sneeze, or make any sound from me, or I will lose my life.”
Blanche was fortunate to avoid dying at the hands of the Nazis, who during World War II murdered about six million Jews.
A million and more of these unidentified victims are still.
But it appears that a software engineer by the name of Daniel Pat has developed an artificial intelligence programme that makes it possible to identify these individuals.
By using the technique of identifying the faces shown in hundreds of thousands of archival images that combine victims and Holocaust victims, the Daniel program was able to get to know a picture of Blanche Fixer taken during the war.
The artificial intelligence programme is defined on one of the images before it starts – starting with this prior knowledge – on a journey to search in millions of faces contained in archive images in order to find the owner or owner of the image that was previously found.
Thus, it is possible to determine the identities of unknown individuals using a system that collects points divided by time and the circumstances of a war.
Blanche is now 86 years old and lives in New York.
Blanche had never seen the group photograph on the left, which was taken in France during the war, while she got to know the family members who are shown on the right below.
The artificial intelligence application Daniel was used to link the two images.
In her early years, Blanche was referred to as a Bronia. When the Nazis arrived to look for her and her family, she was living in Poland.
Her aunt Rose, who was successful in hiding her, helped her survive the deaths of her mother and brothers.
The owner of the artificial intelligence program, engineer Daniel, made the trip to meet Blanche and the rest of her family, who are shown in the photo on the right.
Blanche claims that the images brought back memories for her, including a song she had learned in French class as a child.
Immediately, Blanche got to know herself in the first row of the collective image, but this is not all of it; Blanche has recognized her aunt Rose as well as one of the boys in the photo – Daniel and the United States Memorial Museum in the United States gave new information to research on the basis of it.
According to Scott Miller, a representative of the Holocaust Museum, “it is crucial to ascertain the identities of the people shown in these images.”
We all are aware that six million Jews were murdered, and Miller continued, “Each of these victims has a name and a face.
Only three people were visible in the picture before Blanche’s eyes landed there.
Thanks to the Blanche and Daniel AI program, the number of those whose identity has been identified in the image has doubled..
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