Lily Ebert, one of the last remaining survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, told Sky News she believes the Holocaust could happen again.
The 100-year-old woman was 20 when she was deported from her hometown in Hungary to a concentration camp.
Her mother, younger sister, and brother were killed by the Nazis in the gas chambers.
Speaking to Sky News' Trevor Phillips with her grandson Dov Foreman, Ms Ebert was asked if she feared… holocaust It could happen again after 78 years.
“This is a very difficult question to answer for me,” she said. “But we see it is possible, because it happened.
“It happened to me the second time too. Fortunately they didn't kill me, they almost killed me.”
“They acted with me not like a human being that you should be talking to, they are talking with someone who is not a normal human being.
“Why would anyone talk to me like that? When I've done nothing wrong to the whole world.”
Mr Foreman then added that anti-Semitism “remains ever present in today's world”, saying: “That's why it's important to remember, because we need ordinary people like you and me who stood idly by during the Holocaust to realize that if we let hate go unchecked… This leads to a place like gas chambers.
“Auschwitz-Birkenau did not fall from the sky. The Holocaust was not something that was created overnight. It was an indoctrination of hate ideology over years.”
Ms. Ebert, when describing her time in Auschwitz, also told Mr. Phillips: “When I survived the worst thing in my life, being in Auschwitz, you could say that was in anyone's life, the worst thing.
“To survive, I don't think a lot of people can survive that. I survived that, and it was terrible.”
Saturday saw the UK and the world mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating 79 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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in statement On the occasion of the Holocaust Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday: “I want to address very directly the resurgence of vile anti-Semitism. Because it is not enough for us to come together today and remember the Holocaust sincerely.
“We must also act on what that memory teaches us. It is sickening that the Jewish people are once again facing the most horrific anti-Semitism in this country.”
It comes as Sky News has learned of anti-Semitic incidents referring to the Holocaust increased by 104% Across the UK in 2023.
Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that protects British Jews from anti-Semitism, last year received 955 reports of Holocaust-related anti-Semitism, defined as incidents containing some sort of reference to the Holocaust, the Nazis, Hitler or the swastika.
This number is more than double the 469 incidents reported in 2022.
