VENICE — At one time, Irene Zisblatt was awakened every morning by hopeless children crying out of desperation.
For Zisblatt, a Holocaust survivor, the tragedy and hardship she managed to survive through must be used to educate the children of tomorrow, she said.
Despite being over 90 years of age, she travels around the country, warning people of the dangers hate can bring.
She and those she loved were abducted by Nazis and shipped to concentration camps during World War II.
Thursday, she shared her expereiences of that time to a large crowd at the Venice Community Center.
Prior to her speech, her organizers lit six candles to honor the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
The Hungary-born survivor Zisblatt, born in 1929, was a teenager at the time and is the only survivor from her 40-member family — all of whom were murdered.
Her story began on a beautiful estate in Hungary, in close proximity to farms, where she, her four brothers and one sister would play and live the lives of normal children.