TODAY MARKS 75 YEARS SINCE
THE ALLIES LIBERATED THE OSWITS
CONCENTRATION CAMP.
NOW THIS DAY OF COURSE NOW
COMMEMORATED AS HOLOCAUST
REMEMBRANCE DAY.
EACH YEAR THERE'S FEWER
SURVIVORS LEFT TO TELL THEIR
STORY.
WE SAT DOWN WITH FIVE
SURVIVORS.
CHARLOTTE IS THEIR HOME NOW BUT
OF COURSE THEY WILL ALWAYS
REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST THEY
LEFT BEHIND.
DAISY.
MY NAME IS MARK DECKER.
HELLO NICE TO MEET YOU.
Reporter: WE GATHERED AT A
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY IN
CHARLOTTE.
HALF A WORLD AND 75 YEARS AWAY
FROM THE NIGHTMARE THEY LEFT
BEHIND.
AND ALL THESE MEMORIES THAT
COME BACK, IT'S TORTURE.
TORTURE.
I REMEMBER BEING SCARED.
I REMEMBER WHEN MY PARENTS SENT
ME AWAY TO PEOPLE THEY HAD
NEVER MET.
TOSSED ME OVER BARB WIRE.
TOSSED YOU OVER BARB WIRE.
IN A SACK.
SO I WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO
LIVE.
Reporter: SHE WAS JUST 5
YEARS OLD WHEN SHE WAS LIVING
WITH HER PARENTS AND BEGAN
ROUNDING UP ALL OF THE JEWISH
CHILDREN UNDER 12.
I WAS LUCKY.
A WOMAN WHO WAS JEWISH HERSELF
PASSING FOR CHRISTIAN SAVED MY
LIFE R-FRP THOSE ARE STUDENTS
THAT POINTS OF COMPLETE TERROR
AND MIRACULOUS SURVIVORS.
I'M THE LUCKIEST OF
SURVIVORS.
Reporter: SHAPIRO WAS BORN
IN AUSTRIA.
A YEAR LATER HER FAMILY MOVED
TO HUNGARY WHICH WAS ALSO UNDER
NAZI CONTROL.
THEY SURVIVED BECAUSE HER
MOTHER WAS ABLE TO BUY
FALSIFIED PAPERS AND FOUND THE
COURAGE TO STAND UP TO THE
SOLDIERS.
THE NAZI'S WOULD COME TO THE
DOOR AND SAY THERE ARE JEWISH
PEOPLE HERE, THEY ARE WAITING.
MY MOTHER PULLED OUT THE
FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS AND SHE
SAID, YES, MY HUSBAND IS A JEW
HE'S IN PRISON.
BUT, I AM CATHOLIC, AND SO ARE
BOTH OF MY CHILDREN.
AND SHE SHOWED THEM THE
FALSIFIED DOCUMENTS.
IRVING BEANSTOCK WAS 12
YEARS OLD LIVING IN GERMANY ON
NOVEMBER 9, 1928.
THE NIGHT THAT WOULD COME TO BE
CALLED CRYSTAL KNIGHT.
ALONG THE MIDDLE NIGHT I WAS
SLEEPING AND I HEARD LOUD
NOISES.
Reporter: MOBS WERE
GATHERING AND BEGAN GOING FROM
ONE JEWISH HOME TO THE NEXT.
THEN I GOT UP AND I LOOKED
UP FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
I COULD SEE THE SYNAGOGUE DOWN
THE BLOCK WAS BURNING.
JUST SCREAMED FOR MY FATHER
TO COME OUT.
Reporter: HANNAH ADLEY WAS
LIVING IN A SMALL TOWN JUST 28
MILES AWAY.
WHEN THE MOB CAME FOR HER
MOTHER.
WE WERE TOGETHER SCREAMING.
AND THEN, I KEPT SAYING TO THE
WOMEN.
Reporter: HER FATHER WAS
BEATEN, BADLY BUT SOMEHOW
SURVIVED.
ALL OF THEM WERE ABLE TO LEAVE
FOR GERMANY SOON AFTER.
BUT FELIX PEER -- PEARSON WAS
NOT SO LUCKY.
HE WAS 13 LIVING IN A SMALL
TOWN IN POLAND WHEN THE MOB
INVADED.
THE NAZI'S ARRESTED TWO
TEENAGERS FOR STEALING
POTATOES.
IN WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO
COME OUT TO THE JEWISH CEMETERY
TO SEE THESE TWO BOYS HUNG.AND
AT THE AGE OF 13, SEEING MY
FRIENDS' BROTHERS HUNG.
Reporter: IN 1938, PEARSON
WAS ROUNDED OUT WITH THE TOWN'S
OTHER YOUS AND SENT TO A
CONCENTRATION CAMP.
HE WAS THERE WHEN THE PEOPLE
ARRIVED.
UNFORTUNATELY A WHOLE WORLD
STOOD BY AND ALLOWED IT TO
HAPPEN.
Reporter: SO THESE SURVIVORS
WILL KEEP TELLING THEIR STORIES
AS LONG AS THEY CAN.
BECAUSE THEIR NIGHTMARE MAY BE
OVER BUT THE HATRED AND
INDIFFERENCE THAT CREATED AND
FUELED THE HOLOCAUST ARE NOT.
IT'S NOT GOING AWAY.
IT'S VERY SCARY FOR ME.
THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN
SOMEONE WILL COME AND SAY THIS
NEVER HAPPENED.
I WAS THERE.
I SAW IT HAPPENING.
I WAS THERE, I SAW IT
HAPPEN.
YOU KNOW WE'VE SEEN THE
DOCUMENTARIES.
WE'VE SEEN THE MOVIES.
BUT UNTIL YOU SIT ACROSS FROM
SOMEONE AND HEAR THEIR STORIES
FACE TO FACE, IT DOESN'T HIT
YOU AND I FEEL A HUGE HONOR AND
PRIVILEGE TO HAVE SAT DOWN WITH
THOSE PEOPLE.
IT'S REALLY EMOTIONAL.
AND IT DOES NEED TO BE
RECORDED.
THEIR STORIES SO THAT PEOPLE
CAN, THEY CAN REMEMBER THIS WAS
REAL.
IT HAS A LASTING IMPACT.
AND THEY ARE A VERY PRECIOUS
RESOURCE.
FIVE YEARS AGO THERE WERE
100,000 SURVIVORS.
WE LOST FOUR IN CHARLOTTE JUST
LAST YEAR.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THERE ARE
IN CHARLOTTE NOW.
NOT MANY.
BUT TO SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO
THEM JUST SO WE CAN HEAR THAT
STORY.
YOU DIDN'T THINK THAT THE
HOLOCAUST IS SOMETHING THAT
COULD BE REPEATED BUT WE NEED
TO HEAR THESE STORIES AS EVERY
DECADE GOES BY BECAUSE IT MUCH
POSSIBLY COULD.
BECAUSE WE NEED TO LEARN THESE
LESSONS AND KEEP THEM FROM
HAPPENING AGAIN.
WE HAVE EXTENDED CLIPS WITH
EACH OF THOSE SURVIVORS.