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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Survivors strive to ensure young people do not forget auschwitz - The Untold Story

Holocaust survivor Esther Senot made it out of Auschwitz alive. © Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP/File

Paris (AFP) – On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much like them when she was first brought to the Nazi death camp on 2 September, 1943.

Senot said her older sister, so frail and gaunt she was barely recognisable, made her vow to pass on the memory of the camp, a macabre monument to Nazi Germany's genocide of the Jews.

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