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"I can't explain how I survived," she stated in a video testimony that is part of the collection of the Holocaust Museum of Oporto.

The documentary Souvenirs de Iasi was screened in Lisbon, shedding light on Romania’s dark past and the massacre that devastated the Jewish community of Iasi in 1941.

In the course of World War II, thousands of non-Jews risked their lives to save Jews from deportation to the death camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe.

“We will never forget the 6 million Jews murdered in cold blood and all the victims of the Holocaust,” says European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The Holocaust Museum of Oporto received a thousand students from Portuguese schools and the Israeli Ambassador to Portugal, Oren Rozemblat.

Next Monday, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum will commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation with the presence of survivors from the concentration and extermination camp.