BEIT SHEMESH — Ehudith Bracha Serchook narrowly escaped death when her family fled Nazi\u002Dallied forces storming the Crimean city of Odesa in 1941, saved only by…
A lifetime later, 86-year-old Serchook is retelling her story via an artificial intelligence service generating images that will leave an enduring record of her trauma for future generations.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Sitting alongside the survivors as they retell their stories, Leffler writes the key elements into Midjourney, an AI program which converts text into graphic pictures. The program generates four images of a young child wearing a pink coat, leaving Gurewitsch to choose the closest likeness. “We were hurrying to catch the last steamer leaving Odesa, with many children and elderly people on board,” she says.
“I want you to remember the moment when it saves your life,” Leffler prompts her, trying to capture her emotion at the time.
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