that is why vanessa eisenhardt has taken over.he and other students taking part of the project called second witnesses, tell the stories of holocaust survivors to others, like at the school in southern germany. >> she said it was basically a death train. they were being loaded into a car. she said, we stood packed tightly as sardines. reporter: vanessa eisenhardt also tells us that erna de vries worked as a nurse before thee war, that she wanted to become a doctor, that she talks about her family and how she repeatedly made plans to emigrate to israel. plans that never came to anything. reporter: stories like these show what happens when you leave room for racism and anti-semitism. if you give it enough space, it can no longer be changed back. there are some parallels with the present, such as losing your homeland. that's something that flows through the entire story. >> i was just about to cry, but i did not after all. i think her will to survive and tell her story is really great. >> i think you have two openen some people's eye