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Holocaust survivor Eva Seppesi has a
warning for the world.

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Don't let history repeat itself.

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Asked about how she views rising
anti-Semitism and right-wing populism,

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she said, It is terrifying.

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It is definitely terrifying that it is
like this.

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And that is why we have to do something
about it in the very beginning.

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Because the Shoah did not begin with
Auschwitz, but with words, silence,

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and society looking away.

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And every single person should do
something to ensure that something like

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this never happens again.

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The 92-year-old survived Auschwitz,
the Nazi death camp liberated 80 years ago

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by Soviet troops.

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She is among a group of survivors voicing
concerns about the current political

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climate.

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During a visit to the Jewish Museum in
Frankfurt, Germany, she recalled being a

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young girl and on the brink of death at
Auschwitz.

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She said prison guards mistakenly thought
she was dead already and left her behind.

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She did not speak about her experience for
decades.

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In 2016, she discovered a death list
containing the names of her mother and

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brother.

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And then I was able to grieve,
to cry.

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I couldn't do that before.

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96-year-old Teresa Regula was also brought
to Auschwitz.

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It's difficult to make out the numbers the
Nazis tattooed on Regula's arm,

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but they're fresh in her mind.

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22-0-11, she said.

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Once a healthy child, she contracted
chicken pox, measles, and scarlet fever in

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the camp.

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The thought of reuniting with her father
kept her alive.

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Those dreams were dashed when she later
found out he had been mistakenly shot by

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Russian forces when they liberated the
concentration camp he was in.

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Speaking at her home in Krakow,
Poland, she says, terrible things are

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happening in the world.

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People didn't draw any conclusions,
she said.

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Adding, she chose not to have children,
so they wouldn't have to go through

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anything like what she suffered.

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Janina Iwanska, a Polish Catholic woman
sent to Auschwitz at almost the same time

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as Regula in 1944, also remained
childless.

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She's worried about the generations of
children to come.

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What will their future be like?

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Because I see it as bleak, bleak.

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Because I remember before 1939,
hatred was created between people,

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pitting some people against others,
treating others as a slightly lower,

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worse race.

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And what came of it?

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But what is now is still on a much,
much larger scale.