Archive · 3 Oct 2025
AI Helps Identify Nazi Soldier in Iconic Holocaust Photo
A historian used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify a Nazi soldier in a famous photo from the Holocaust.
The photo shows a soldier about to shoot a man.
The historian, Jurgen Matthaus, used AI facial recognition to find the soldier's identity.
The soldier was named Jakobus Onnen and belonged to a Nazi killing unit.
The shooting happened in Ukraine in 1941.
The historian is now trying to find out who the victim was.
This discovery helps to remember and understand the horrors of the Holocaust.
A historian used AI to identify a Nazi soldier in a famous Holocaust photo.
The identified soldier was named Jakobus Onnen.
Onnen was a member of Einsatzgruppe C, a mobile killing unit.
The massacre occurred on July 28, 1941, in Berdychiv.
The research aims to reveal the reality of the Holocaust.
- Who
- Historian Jurgen Matthaus and AI identified the soldier in the photo.
- What
- AI was used to identify a Nazi soldier in a haunting Holocaust photograph.
- When
- The massacre occurred on July 28, 1941.
- Where
- The massacre took place in the citadel of Berdychiv, Ukraine (formerly Soviet Union).
- Why
- The identification aims to reveal the Holocaust's brutal reality.
- Identified Soldier
- Jakobus Onnen
- Unit
- Einsatzgruppe C
- Location
- Berdychiv Citadel, Ukraine
- Date of Massacre
- July 28, 1941
- AI Used For
- Facial recognition to identify Onnen