Holocaust Remembrance Day through a Columbia resident | Mid-Missouri News [Video]

The liberation of Auschwitz occurred on Jan. 27, 1945, making it 80 years to the day since the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps was raided by the Soviet Army.

Columbia resident Laura Flacks-Narrol took a look back into the history of her family’s journey to freedom. She said she heard the story from her mother, Lily Flacks.

Lily was a young child, 9 years old, when she arrived in Canada after the Holocaust, accompanied by Flacks-Narrol’s grandmother and Flacks’ mom, Gela Levovitch. 

“They spent years on the run,” Flacks-Narrol said. “They were in a lot of camps, they were in a lot of deportation camps… refugee camps.”

She said her grandmother was always prepared to flee in case what she experienced through the years of the Holocaust happened again.