Facial recognition identifies the mother of rush singer Geddy Lee in a photo of the internment camp

Using artificial intelligence, Holocaust descendants have never seen before In the website image archives that help you find pictures of your loved ones, you've found pictures of Geddy Lee's mother in Rush Rocker.

Mary Wayne Rib, who died a year ago at the age of 96, began her new life in Canada in 1946 after surviving Auschwitz. Concentration camp.

Mary Wayne Rib always shared her traumatic experience at Auschwitz with her children, but now her family has new images of life during the Holocaust. A photo showing Wayne Rib in Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp in northwestern Germany, was found.

Wayne Rib was born in Warsaw in 1925 in Manya (Marca) Rubinstein. She grew up near the Jewish Shtetl. In 1939, when Nazi soldiers hijacked her home, she was sent to a labor camp in Starahovice, after which she was transferred to Auschwitz and later to Bergen-Belsen.

Q1043 In an interview with New York, Lee said she survived with the help of her grandmother, whose mother united her family.

"She believed that if they all perish, they would perish together, and if they all intend to survive, they would survive together," Lee said.

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Google software engineer Daniel Patt uses AI-powered face recognition to analyze Holocaust survivor photos and match them with user-provided headshots. I have created a website From Numbers to Names (N2N).

"I contacted Rush Geddy Lee, thinking it was a picture of her mother, and he said it was certainly her picture at Bergen-Belsen's refugee camp. I was able to confirm, "Pat told the Times of Israel.

"Then, Geddy finds photos of his grandmother, uncle, aunt, and other extended families by browsing the Yad Vashem collection from which the first photo was based.

Patt said he started the project after visiting the POLIN Museum of Polish Jewish History.

"I couldn't shake the feeling that I might have passed by without knowing the family photos," Pat said. "I'm the grandson of all Holocaust survivors from Poland."

Originally, Pat started working on this website in his free time and was using his resources.

Currently, Pat wants to work with a team of engineers and researchers with museums, schools, research institutes and other organizations to raise awareness about the Holocaust.

The free website is used to analyze over 500,000 photos, including about 2 million faces. Still, Pat wants to access more than 700,000 other photos before and during the Holocaust.

Patt states that there is a great deal of interest, "there is a backlog of potential identification that we are currently doing manually."

This technique is also used at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). The

USHMM collection contains a database of over 270,000 registered survivors and over 85,000 historical photographs. The museum will have access to an additional 1 million photos.

Despite its success, there is one problem facing the N2N team. According to Pat, it's a limited time.

"We have been developing projects on nights and weekends for months. This effort is urgent and still to be made when the last survivors pass by. There are many connections that can be made, "Pat told The Times of Israel.

"I hope N2N will help build those connections while the survivors are still with us."