Ruth Cohen, a 94-year-old American Holocaust survivor, returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland for the first time. She recalled seeing family members before they were separated for the last time at the camp.

I feature my mother’s testimony in my teaching because it gives my students a direct link, through me, as my mother’s son, to the genocide that was the Holocaust, writes Menachem Z. Rosensaft.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the families of two survivors who resettled in Pittsburgh shared their stories.