Shoah Memorial in Paris
Jewish File F9
France ✧ 2023-2024
Corpus
32,000 handwritten and typed index cards
Artificial intelligence technologies used
- OCR/HTR for historical documents
- Information extraction
- Prediction edition campaign on Callico
Objectives
Extracting information from the "Jewish File"
The "Jewish File" refers to the system of registration put in place in France during the Occupation in order to identify and list people considered to be Jewish in the sense of the anti-Semitic legislation of Philippe Pétain's regime.
Processing workflow
- Training a specific information extraction model
- Configuring a Callico campaign for model prediction moderation

Image: Crypt at the Shoah Memorial in Paris