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What AI can lose when it makes Holocaust writings easier to read
Source: Phys.org · Published
In an Amsterdam prison during the Nazi occupation, Sal Bramson drew his cell on pieces of cotton cloth. He added handwritten explanations and sent these messages to his mother, concealed inside a shirt collar among the prison laundry. The cloth could travel because it passed as something ordinary. Its material was part of what made communication possible.
Key points
- In an Amsterdam prison during the Nazi occupation, Sal Bramson drew his cell on pieces of cotton cloth.
- He added handwritten explanations and sent these messages to his mother, concealed inside a shirt collar among the prison laundry.
- The cloth could travel because it passed as something ordinary.
- Its material was part of what made communication possible.
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