(JTA) Ben Sales - Eva Lavi was 2 years old when Nazi Germany took over her hometown of Krakow in September 1939. Now 80, she remembers how her mother made her hide outside in below-zero weather as Nazis searched her home in Poland. She remembers seeing her twin cousins shot to death as they ran up a hill at a labor camp. "There was no childhood for children my age," she told the UN General Assembly following International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27. "Regularly, we saw, heard and understood everything the Nazis were doing to us. At 6 years old, children were cynical old people trying to survive." Lavi is the youngest survivor to have been on German industrialist Oskar Schindler's list.
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