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Achtung, Achtung, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Almari and with James Holland.

Now, James, who are we talking to today?

Well, it's Holocaust Memorial Day and so we've got an incredibly special guest today,

Inga Auerbacher, who was born in the Schwarzwald, or very near the Schwarzwald, the Black Forest in Southern Germany,

with her Jewish family and she was a victim of the Holocaust and she and her family, immediate family,

were sent to Regent Stath, also known as Terrizin.

A concentration camp that I have been to and have been appalled by, I have to say.

Many of her family members also were packed off to Auschwitz and that was where they met their end.

But amazingly, Inga and both her parents survived, as did her doll.

And she's been an amazing spokesperson, I should say, for the experience of the Holocaust,

making sure that we don't forget it, but also talking about healing as well and about bringing people together.

Inga, it's just fantastic, you know, you and I have been kind of emailing each other back and forth for about 18 months, two years or something.

So finally, we have to see each other, albeit via via our computers.

But welcome and thank you very much indeed for joining us.

Thank you so much and I send you regards from Yankee Land, New York City.

Amazing.

So it's an amazing pleasure to finally meet you even this way.

We're even closer than if I would be in person there. I see you right in front of me.

So that's one good thing.

Inga, you were born in Germany and your family were Germans.

Your father had fought for the German army in the First World War.

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