your name at that point was tola grossman. she said, "tola, remember. remember this place."e things. she took me around and she showed me soap... ..made from human fat. and i remember she said to me, "shall we take it?" isaid, "no, i'm not even touching it." she wanted to remember. she wanted the world eventually... she never talked about it publicly, by the way. mm. and she only spoke to people who were there. earlier, when we were talking about your mother, you talked about the way in which some of her memories, particularly what happened with her nieces, was something she could never get over, and she died young and i think she died mentally very troubled, of course. very, very, very troubled. now, people talk about survivor's guilt after the holocaust, after places like auschwitz. right. is it a phrase that means anything to you? how would you describe...? i don't feel like that. i feel in a sense a survivor's obligation, the obligation to tell the story... ..and to lead a life that is meaningful because why am i saved if i'm wasting it? so, most of the people that i per

your name at that point was tola grossman. she said, "tola, remember. remember this place.". she took me around and she showed me soap... ..made from human fat. and i remember she said to me, "shall we take it?" isaid, "no, i'm not even touching it." she wanted to remember. she wanted the world eventually... she never talked about it publicly, by the way. mm. and she only spoke to people who were there. earlier, when we were talking about your mother, you talked about the way in which some of her memories, particularly what happened with her nieces, was something she could never get over, and she died young and i think she died mentally very troubled, of course. very, very, very troubled. now, people talk about survivor's guilt after the holocaust, after places like auschwitz. right. is it a phrase that means anything to you? how would you describe...? i don't feel like that. i feel in a sense a survivor's obligation, the obligation to tell the story... ..and to lead a life that is meaningful because why am i saved if i'm wasting it? so, most of the people that i personally

tola grossman was a five-year-old jewish girl in 1944 when she and her parents were shipped in cattle. she would become one of the youngest survivors of the camp, freed as the red army swept across poland into germany in 1945. the depths of the horrors it inflicted upon the jews of europe it became apparent. she and her mother were separated from her father at auschwitz, not knowing his fate. they left the camp in april 1945. her mother uttered one word when they left -- remember. tola has written a deeply vivid and affecting account of her life then and since there -- and since. i's called the daughter of auschwitz. her co-author is our very own malcolm. this book came about as a result of malcolm coming to report on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz and he was talking to you. how did the book idea come about? >> i told him for years i wanted to write a book about my lif. i started many times, but i am not disciplined and not a very good writer, at list -- at least not such a serious book. the first thing he did, he made a short program i think for your tv, right? a