(CBS DETROIT) – The grand re-opening ceremony at the Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills marked the historic transformation of its core exhibit. The event also showed the importance of remembering the Holocaust.
As Edith Kozlowski, a Holocaust survivor, took the stage to celebrate the Zekelman Holocaust Center’s exhibits, she and others who lived through that horrific time, were present to make sure this story is never forgotten.
Kozlowski is 101 years old and the memories of the painful genocide she survived still haunt her.
“When we came to Auschwitz, the Germans selected us. You go right, you go left. They had left and right to choose who’s going to go to the oven and who’s going to be left,” Kozlowski said. “I went to my two sisters and said, if they’ll choose you to go left, I imagine that’s bad. But I’m the oldest, and I’m going to be with you as long as I can.”
Kozlowski said sadly her two sisters eventually died of natural causes at Auschwitz.