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My guest today has defied enormous odds to live a long life.

Mindu Hornick was just 12 when she, her mother and siblings were transported from their home in

what is now the Czech Republic to Auschwitz, the most infamous death camp, the place where

the Nazis industrialized the genocide of European

jury with evil precision. Mindu miraculously survived, as did her sister, her parents and brothers

did not. She is one of the remaining witnesses to the unparalleled horror of the Nazi Holocaust.

On this 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, she still determined to tell her story.

Her challenge to us is to listen and learn the right lessons.

Mindu Hornick, welcome to Hard Talk.

I want to begin by asking you how you feel about this moment where there is so much somber reflection and ceremonial

marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

For you as a survivor, how do you feel?

For me, as a survivor, very important.

Memorials, school events and commemorations are really important to me because my fear is with a passage of time,

if we don't remember, we don't commemorate and we do not teach children that the memory of the 20th century, which was horrific, would erode

and would disappear with the passage of time.

Let's make it personal.

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