Ilana Kantorowicz Shalem is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors. International Holocaust Memorial Day is observed across the world on January 27.
It's been 80 years since the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated at the end of World War II, but surveys are showing that fewer people remember the Holocaust and the horrors that happened there. As Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, the Jewish community is working to fight antisemitism and keep history alive.
Communities across the U.S. are remembering the atrocities of one of the worst acts of genocide in modern history for Holocaust Remembrance Day. But for the Jewish Family and Children's Services Holocaust Center in San Francisco, teaching the history of those events is what they do everyday.
Eighty-one years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, few survivors are still alive to recount the horrors endured there.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 79 years since the Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated. Holocaust survivors can still be found all over the world, including here in the Bay Area. ABC7 News reporter Tim Johns got the opportunity to sit down with one survivor in his home and shares his story.
"As we move further and further away from that moment in history, people tend to forget," San Jose City Councilmember David Cohen said. "So it's really important to keep that memory alive with an annual remembrance."