Artificial intelligence preserves history

Holocaust survivors, clockwise from top left, Alex Konstantyn, Sami Steigmann, Leo Ullman, Gilda Zirinsky, Reha Bennicasa and Mireille Taub, share their stories, to help educate future generations about the atrocities of the Holocaust.

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Students often learned about the atrocities committed during that time by reading first-hand accounts or hearing them from survivors. But as the events of World War II and the Holocaust fall further into the past and the last survivors die, there will no longer be anyone able to share the atrocities they either witnesses or experienced themselves.

To keep the stories of Holocaust survivors alive for generations to come, the Glen Cove center presented a project involving artificial intelligence and survivor stories.