{"id":87444,"date":"2025-04-24T18:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T23:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=87444"},"modified":"2025-04-25T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:40:42","slug":"survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-oct-7-embrace-at-auschwitz-marking-annual-march-of-the-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/survivors-of-the-holocaust-and-oct-7-embrace-at-auschwitz-marking-annual-march-of-the-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivors of the Holocaust and Oct. 7 embrace at Auschwitz, marking annual March of the Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bky DEORAH DANAN<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 O\u015aWI\u0118CIM, Poland \u2014&nbsp;At Auschwitz for the annual March of the Living, Maggie Megidish and her daughter, released hostage Ori, stood among a delegation of survivors of both the Holocaust and Oct. 7. The visit stirred memories of their own ordeal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87445\" class=\"wp-image-87445 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87445\" class=\"wp-image-87445 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211708564-scaled-e1745526922409-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar (R)&nbsp;speaks to rescued hostage Ori Magdish (L), while Holocaust survivor Gita Kaufman and released hostage Agam Berger embrace, draped in an Israeli flag outside the &#8220;Arbeit Macht Frei&#8221; sign at Auschwitz during March of the Living on April 24, 2025 in Oswiecim, Poland. (Alexi Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When a Holocaust survivor spoke of the hunger she endured in the camp, Maggie said was transported back to the weeks she barely ate, tormented by thoughts of her daughter in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith every bite, or every sip of water, I wondered if she, too, was getting any food,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty Holocaust survivors were set to take part in this year\u2019s March of the Living, some for the first time, marking 80 years since the liberation of the concentration camps. But on Wednesday evening, just hours before she was meant to depart for Auschwitz, 94-year-old survivor, Eve Kugler, died in her London home, bringing the number down to 79.<\/p>\n<p>That same evening, before news of her death became public, a video featuring Kugler was broadcast at the March\u2019s opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>March of the Living president Phyllis Greenberg Heideman reflected on the weight of this year\u2019s delegation, saying, \u201cIt will probably be their last time in this godforsaken place, Auschwitz-Birkenau.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draped in Israeli flags by the infamous Auschwitz gate bearing the words \u201cWork will set you free,\u201d Ori Megidish and fellow IDF observer Agam Berger, who were both abducted by Hamas and later freed \u2014 the first in a rescue operation within weeks and the second in a hostage deal after nearly 16 months \u2014 stood for several minutes embracing Holocaust survivors Irene Shashar and Gita Kaufman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe beat the enemy, didn\u2019t we, girls?\u201d Shashar said through tears. \u201cWe went through horrors, but despite everything, we are here, standing firm in the face of such evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87446\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87446\" class=\"wp-image-87446 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-1024x572.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-1024x572.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-768x429.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-1536x858.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-2048x1143.webp 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/572;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87446\" class=\"wp-image-87446 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-1024x572.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-1024x572.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-768x429.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-1536x858.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211078430-scaled-e1745527203464-2048x1143.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poland&#8217;s President Andrzej Duda, at right, and Israel&#8217;s President Isaac Herzog flank Eli Sharabi, who was held hostage in Gaza for 491 days after Hamas murdered his family on Oct. 7, 2023, during the March of the Living in Auschwitz, April 24, 2025. (Wojtek Radwanski\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ten freed hostages were set to participate in the annual march, which brings Jewish teens from around the world to Auschwitz. In addition to Megidish and Berger, the attendees included the American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel freed during the recent ceasefire and Eli Sharabi, whose wife and daughters were murdered on Oct. 7 and drew comparisons to a Holocaust survivor when he was freed in February because of his gaunt appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the crematoria, Sharabi said the presence of survivors of the Hamas-led massacre at Auschwitz was a \u201creminder that the Jewish people will exist for eternity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tzili Wenkert, grandmother of released hostage Omer Wenkert, said that despite being a Holocaust survivor, \u201cmy real Holocaust was when they kidnapped Omer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came to Israel in 1965, I never thought I\u2019d go through another Holocaust. I never dreamed something like this could happen,\u201d Wenkert said.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kuperstein went further, describing the abduction of his grandson Bar \u2014 still held by Hamas \u2014 as \u201ceven worse\u201d than the trauma he experienced as a child under Nazi persecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hate we saw with the Nazis was the same hate we saw on Oct 7. It\u2019s a second Holocaust.\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bar had moved in with his grandparents after his father fell ill, to make space for a caregiver. His grandparents have kept his room untouched and leave an empty chair for him at every meal. Two months before his abduction from the Nova music festival, Bar, a paramedic, saved his grandfather\u2019s life by performing emergency treatment during a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Standing alongside her husband outside the crematoria, Michael\u2019s wife, Faina Kuperstein, said her grandson is going through \u201cnearly the same thing that Holocaust survivors went through.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87447\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87447\" class=\"wp-image-87447 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-1536x865.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05.jpeg 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87447\" class=\"wp-image-87447 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-1024x577.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05-1536x865.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-04-24-at-16.23.05.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shoshana Bogler, left, and Fran Malkin, both Holocaust survivors, both likened their experience with that of Israeli hostages in Gaza. (Deborah Danan)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shoshana Bogler, 91, had never set foot in Auschwitz until now. A Holocaust survivor originally from \u0141om\u017ca near Bia\u0142ystok in Poland, she was deported to Siberia during the war with her four siblings, only one of whom survived. She said she hesitated to join the March of the Living, nervous about facing the site where her husband\u2019s entire family was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I also felt I needed to see it for myself. I wanted to see that gate,\u201d she said, gesturing toward the iron \u201cArbeit Macht Frei\u201d sign. Her daughter had tried to dissuade her, warning that the experience might be too emotionally overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, Bogler openly shared her late husband Shmuel\u2019s story, but never her own. \u201cI\u2019m so, so happy I came,\u201d she said, her eyes filling with tears. \u201cIt\u2019s like a huge stone off my chest \u2013 a closing of the circle. I have never told my story, and now I feel ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bogler, who lives in Jerusalem, also said the comparisons between Oct. 7 and the Holocaust are valid. \u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep for days after Oct. 7,\u201d she said. \u201cOf course we can compare the brutality of Hamas to the brutality of the Nazis at Auschwitz. People were beheaded!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fran Malkin, 87, who now lives in New Jersey and survived the war hidden for two years by a Polish woman, agreed. Malkin was born in Sokal, then part of Poland, where much of her family was murdered in Be\u0142\u017cec.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI agree with the comparison,\u201d she said. \u201cThe numbers weren\u2019t the same, but I feel very strongly that if they hadn\u2019t been stopped, the numbers would be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sara Weinstein, however, pushed back against the comparisons. \u201cThere are no words to describe Oct. 7. But it was in our country,\u201d the nonagenarian said. \u201cThe victims received treatment \u2014 yes, it wasn\u2019t immediate \u2014 but they were taken to hospitals, given a bed and a blanket. I lay on the forest floor, wounded and burning with fever, with only leaves for cover, in minus 25 degrees. For three years, I wore the same dress.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_87448\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87448\" class=\"wp-image-87448 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87448\" class=\"wp-image-87448 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2211793619-scaled-e1745527429756-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-87448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Released hostage Agam Berger, and Daniel Weiss, who survived Oct. 7 but lost his parents, perform during The International March Of The Living at Auschwitz- Birkenau on April 24, 2025, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Alexi Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Born in the town of Stepan \u2014 then Poland, now Ukraine \u2014 Weinstein spent nearly two years in a ghetto. When she was almost 7, Nazis stormed her home and killed her mother, who was shielding her with her body. Weinstein was wounded in the shoulder and back, and the house was set on fire. \u201cMy father shouted, \u2018If you\u2019re alive, get up and let\u2019s run!\u2019\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>They hid in forests until the Red Army liberated the area in 1944. Her father was murdered by local Ukrainians. She and her two surviving sisters were sent to an orphanage, and later, before her 10th birthday, to Italy. In 1947, Weinstein immigrated to Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>At the March of the Living\u2019s closing ceremony at Birkenau, Weinstein sang the Yiddish folk song \u201cOyfn Pripetshik\u201d alongside IDF cantor Shai Abramson. Earlier, bereaved Kibbutz Be\u2019eri survivor Daniel Weiss performed with Agam Berger, who played a 150-year-old violin rescued during the Holocaust. For the first time in the march\u2019s 37-year history, the ceremony was cut short and speeches were canceled due to torrential rain.<\/p>\n<p>Jonny Daniels, founder of Holocaust education nonprofit From the Depths, and a former Poland resident who has long accompanied Holocaust survivors to sites like Auschwitz, warned that comparisons between the Holocaust and Oct. 7 risk minimizing both events.<\/p>\n<p>The former hostages and their families \u201chave earned the right to say whatever they want,\u201d Daniels said, \u201cand none of us are in any kind of position to argue with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Holocaust, he argued, was \u201can entirely unique event that ended in the mass murder of 6 million.\u201d The Hamas attack, by contrast, was \u201ca pogrom, a murder of Jews, but it wasn\u2019t longer than a day,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was the 7th of October and not the 8th, or the 9th or the 10th, because today, we have Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to put each of these events in the separate places that they deserve historically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sara Weinstein said healing after Oct. 7 is possible \u2014 but it has to come from within. For 60 years, she couldn\u2019t bring herself to say the words \u201cmom\u201d or \u201cdad.\u201d That changed only after three years of therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got stronger, mentally. But it was up to me entirely,\u201d she said. \u201cNo one should try to force the Oct. 7 survivors to make a mental change. They need to want it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bella Eizenman, 98, from \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, who survived Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and a death march as a teenager, offered her own advice to those struggling. \u201cDon\u2019t give up. Wait for a better day, because it will come,\u201d she said. \u201cToday, being here with my great-grandchildren, I\u2019m proof of that. 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