Dozens of Nazi death camp survivors gathered today in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim - which the German occupiers called Auschwitz - to remember the horrors they lived through and celebrate the acts of humanity or randomness of fate that kept them alive.
Survivors and government officials marked the 64th anniversary of the day the advancing Soviet army liberated the camp in 1945.
The anniversary has been established as an annual Holocaust remembrance day by the United Nations.
Bronislawa Horowitz-Karakulska, 78, credited her survival to destiny - and to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist whose story was told in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List."
He shielded more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi death camps by hiring them to work in his factories.
"The fact that I am alive - for this I thank Oskar Schindler and the fact that he was able to get me and 300 women out of here and get us to the camp in Brunnlitz,"
Horowitz-Karakulska said, speaking in a school gymnasium to a group of local high-school students.
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