♪ ♪ >> this is "nightline." >> juju: holocaust remembrance day. aerial russian takes a deeply personal journey to auschwitz. >> it is shocking how expensive this was. >> record highs with some younger americans painfully unaware of one of the darkest periods in history. how one tiktok influencer is trying to change that. >> i feel like this is going to away, so people up. i hope. it is like to be here and experience this. it is like nothing i can expl explain. >> juju: joining forces with a renowned holocaust survivor. >> add to the spirits of the

6 million people. >> juju: words of wisdom. nightline introduce you to morrie schwartz. >> i hate those i have some things to offer the world. >> juju: suffering from als, moving millions with his spirit and his passion for life. now decades after his death, his teachings are back. thanks to a new book. >> one day i just pulled open the drawer and i found the manuscript and it all came rushing back to me. >> juju: and love is blind. why outraged fans broke the internet over the netflix live reunion show. >> announcer: "nightline" we will be right back. neutrogena® hydro boost lightweight. fragrance-free. 48-hour hydration. for that healthy skin glow. neutrogena®. for people with skin. i'm amber, i've lost 128 pounds with golo, taking release. for that healthy skin glow. i have literally tried everything.

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birthday party shattered when a shooter or shooters opened fire killing four, injuring 32. >> yelling for them to help me and nobody would help me so i had to gain my strength and walked outside, like after being shot. >> juju: moting this tightknit community as communities asked locals this evening to help them with any leads they have. kienan cooper was djing the party when the attack began. he remembers the moment when the shots first ring out. >> i asked him to leave the party continued an hour later. >> juju: among those killed, 18-year-old. the birthday girl's beloved big brother. a high school heart -- star athlete who accepted a scholarship to jacksonville state university. >> a smile on his face.

and doing anything possible. >> i feel like he did not deserve this. he had just. he was a sweet boy. >> juju: the other victims identified is 20 thrilled corban holston, a 17-year-old shawn kv smith, and 19-year-old marsia collins. >> he was the light of my life. he was my first born son. i only have won one, and now is gone. >> juju: the de ville community remembering those who lost this weekend. now just hoping for justice and we turn out to a look at what a younger generation is doing to combat anti-semitism which has now reached unprecedented levels in america. on this holocaust remembrance day, we honor the 6 million lives lost in the heroism of the survivors. here is abc's erielle reshef

sharing an emotional journey of her own >> erielle: they were moms, dads, sisters, brothers, and uncles, nephews and nieces. they were families. my family. mentioned living your life behind his barbed wire and not knowing what was going to happen the next minute, the next hour, the next day. no human should live this way. my family's story is just one of millions. 6 million systematically killed by the nazis simply for being born jewish. i'm here on assignment at auschwitz concentration camp in poland. following douglas, the second gentleman and first jewish spouse of a u.s. president or vice president honoring the lives lost in the holocaust. you have made it their mission to combat holocaust distortion

and denial. how do you plan to do that? >> i'm going to talk about what i've seen, the holocaust was real. it happened. and if you don't believe that, go see what i saw. >> erielle: as i report on the historical trip, i also take a personal moment. looking into the heaping rubble of the crematoria, i the aycottage, a jewish prayer for morning to honor my twin cousins and their sister all younger than 11 when they were murdered here. tonight, at sundown, millions of jews are marking the anniversary of the uprising as a day of the holocaust remembrance. yeah, despite best efforts by survivors and educators, the holocaust remains profoundly misunderstood. if learned about at all. a recent study shows 63% of young americans are unaware that 6 million nazis were killed in the holocaust will more than 20% say they are not sure if -- jews

were killed in the holocaust while more than 20% say they are not sure. anti-semitic events are at the highest level ever recorded. now new questions about how to combat anti-semitism -- >> my father had to give up -- >> erielle: and reach the younger generation. montana tech is trying to fight anti-semitism in a new way. she first gained a massive following of more than 9 million with upbeat dance videos and celebrity collaborations. but now she is also using her voice for a much different mission. as the granddaughter of holocaust survivors, she recently transferred those travel to auschwitz to retrace her family history documenting her visit on social media for a largely gen z audience. >> i feel like this is going to waege so many people up i hope. i hope, i hope, i hope.

it is be here and experience this is just -- nothing you can explain. i feel like kids are watching it with their parents and is being shown in schools now and going around and speaking at all the schools, which is a whole new passion for me. >> erielle: when you talk to young people, what is your impression of their understanding of the history and of the holocaust? >> i have spoken at a few schools. i remember asking a question, like, who knows what the holocaust was? one girl raised her hand and her answer was like, it is when these people, the nazis decided they did not like the jews and wanted to kill them all. and she laughed about it. she did know -- did not know. i showed my series. a few clips for my series. her response was completely different. her tone was completely different. she was extremely serious about it and then after we finish, came up to me and gave me a hug. >> erielle: her newfound attorney led her to make a connection with dr. edith eager.

how did that impact you? >> she could stay home and read the romance novels and ate ate chocolate and instead she is touching the whole world. she was just 16 when she and her family were sent to auschwitz. >> it was the middle of may in 1944. there was a sign. work makes you free. my father said, no problem. we are just going to work and then go home. that did not happen. >> erielle: instead she found herself face-to-face with dr. joseph, the angel of death, a physician who performed brutal medical experie experiments. she talked about a chilling encounter with another prisoner

>> i said, when will i see my mother? and she pointed to the chimney and said, fire was coming your mother is burning there. you better talk about it in past tense. and my sister said, th never dies. so that is why i'm here today h. >> erielle: she is author of the acclaimed book the choice. she made is to auschwitz in part by dancing for dr. mccullough in exchange for a small piece of bread. years later, she is still dancing, not for survivor but in celebration of life. >> whew! yeah! >> erielle: and celebrating jewish joy, tradition and

contribution instead of only tragedy is something author and scholar darrell horn has been calling for it. >> there is this fundamental flaw in the way we are teaching about the holocaust that erases living jews. these are the only people who know about jews. the people who killed them. every time there's some public figure who says something anti-semitic, they are supposed to go to the holocaust museum and say nazis are bad. that response does not record the person to engage with giving jewish communities. >> erielle: and a new class of jewish entertainers are echoing that point. >> if somebody says something bad against jews, the worst that can happen is make them visit the holocaust museum. [laughter] which is the stupidest idea. you are taking someone who hates jews into a holocaust museum. [laughter] holy cow!

that was amazing! >> erielle: what do you think people can take away from your comedy. >> a. >> erielle: who is proud to be a jew. it is the fun and we have last. that it is already combating anti-semitism. >> erielle: vintage. >> vintage. >> erielle: without the beard. do you feel like there is a greater purpose to their company? it is a very serious thing. i get a dm telling me we have not left in a year since those we lost her daughter six years ago and this was the first time we laughed especially for this, holocaust survivors. it is a serious thing but it has to be funny. >> erielle: is there a pressure to represent our community when we are facing this tremendous surge in anti-semitism? >> it is not a pressure. it is an honor. is a calling. >> erielle: a passion to

celebrate a heritage, culture, a community that continues to bring so much like to the world. >> you have to remember your past. we have to remember the holocaust. it is a part of what happened to us and you celebrate the good things we do. jews do such amazing things. we are always -- that is how the jews have survived all these years. i have not heard someone saying i'm with the roman or greek empire. but we are still around. >> erielle: our gratitude tonight. words of wisdom. 30 years after his death, a new chapter from the subject of the classic tuesdays with murray. >> i'm going to live as fully as i can. i'm here. keeps flaring, put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable, i got rapid symptom relief with rinvoq. and left bathroom urgency behind. check. when uc got in my way, i got lasting, steroid-free remission

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♪ ♪ >> juju: it has been nearly 30 years since natalie introduced the world to professor morrie schwartz. after millions were enthralled with his pearls of wisdom he is back in the limelight with a newly unearthed manuscript. it is all thanks to a remarkable discovery by the late author's son. here is george stephanopoulos. >> it was sitting in a drawer and one day i just pulled open the drawer and i found that many script and it all came rushing back to me. >> george: rob schwartz has unearthed have gotten treasure. once tucked away by his late father, morrie schwartz i don't have to -- i also being

-- >> george: morrie became one of "nightline"'s most memorable subjects. >> this is a friday night schedule. >> george: his musings on the meaning of life left a lasting impact. >> because i think i have some things to offer the world. >> george: this was the first of three conversations. retired socialist professor and massachusetts who was dying of als. lou gehrig's disease. >> in the mornings, i'm angry and bitter. but it does not last too long and then i get up and say i want to win. >> george: rewatch him listen as a man who was merely the end of his life taught all of us how to live. >> this culture is so stark on death in terms of its fear,

hiding it. they don't know what to do with it. what i'm saying is alternative way of looking at it. i'm not in a hurry. i'm going to live as fully as i can while i'm here. as lively as i can and there's a lot. >> george: one of those viewers is the author of former student of morrie's who visited him until he died in november 1995. alvin reflected on morrie's life in the "nightline" anchor chair. >> synthesize morrie's message >> that ends the last but not a relationship. >> george: the best-selling memoir about those visits has sold more than 80 million copies in counting and was adapted into an emmy-winning tv movie in 1999. >> if we accept that i die at

any time to lead our lives differently. >> george: , a man whose outlook continues to out -- inspired so many is with a new -- is out with a new book. >> it started in 1998 and he finished in 1992. it was his thoughts about life and really in-depth dive into how he wanted to approach aging. he thought he could be helpful for other people to approach aging and in general, creatively vibrantly and joyously. >> george: rob schwartz evidently found that many script the early 2000s. >> it was stunning to find this manuscript and realize that it was never published. i hear my father's voice. it is so filled with his love of life and his love of people and his connection to humanity. >> george: you described this as a begin to "tuesdays with morrie." >> "tuesdays with morrie" is a beautiful book. it is like an introduction to my father's home and he was a

professor of social psychology so he has a lot to say of what it means to be human and how we can improve our lives. >> george: is it fair to summarize his philosophy in two words, stay human? >> yes, i think it is. the problem is we objectify other people like that person is not like me. they don't believe what i believe. that is not the way to go about it. we have a shared humanity that is the crucial thing that you need to connect with. >> george: or in morrie's own words. >> take responsibility for yourself. if we learn that lesson, this world would be so much better place. >> george: what would the human maury think of this attention? >> he would love it. he would adore it. he was a ham. he would be so happy that not only his ideas are getting some attention but that people think it is worthwhile to pay

attention to him. >> george: your father said he wanted to be remembered as a great teacher. he succeeded, didn't he? >> i think so. and i hope this book continues that teaching. >> the disease is not -- my bod body. it will not get my spirit >> juju: and thanks to george and morrie. love is blind. why fans of the dating show are not feeling left for netflix. my doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. i got to my a1c goal and lost some weight too. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer,

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♪ ♪ >> juju: the love is blind reunion shocker.

>> we are sorry we are late. we are no longer alive. >> juju: netflix apologizing to viewers of the reality show "love is blind" after the live reunion special was delayed by technical glitches. it eventually aired but not live. outreach fans venting their frustration on the internet. the streaming service tweeting to everyone who stayed up late woke up early gave up their sunday afternoon, we are incredibly sorry that the "love is blind" live reunion did not turn out as we had planned. and that is determined. we will see