Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day: Survivor recounts how mom saved her life, reveals message to UN

A Holocaust survivor who described the genocide as essentially the most “horrifying” and “unbelievable a part of human historical past” tells Fox Information Digital that she’s going to unfold a message of “don’t hate, love,” when she addresses the U.N. Basic Meeting on Monday. 

Marianne Miller was born in Budapest, Hungary, throughout World Battle II and traveled from Israel to talk in New York Metropolis on Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the course of the Holocaust, Miller says she was in her mom’s arms when she managed to flee a line of girls marching towards a railway station, the place a practice was ready to take them to Auschwitz. 

“I’m a survivor of the Holocaust. I can nonetheless say in first pronoun, ‘I’ve been there,'” Miller instructed Fox Information Digital. “Every single day, Holocaust survivors are leaving us and there shall be solely only a few left.” 

“It did not occur within the Center Ages. It occurred solely 80 years in the past,” she added. “I got here to signify 6 million folks that may’t inform their tales.” 

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Violetta Nobel, left, and her daughter Marianne Miller, a Holocaust survivor. (Courtesy picture/Fox Information)

Miller stated on one “chilly, freezing December evening” in 1944, her mother got here up with a plan that in the end saved each their lives. 

“There’s a quiet march of moms holding their kids. The route is the railway station and the future is Auschwitz,” Miller stated. “I’m within the arms of my mom, after which she does one thing that no one earlier than her and after her did.” 

Miller recalled how her mom tore off the yellow star she was sporting after which ran out of the road, hiding underneath a gate and pondering that no one noticed her. 

“There was a younger, Hungarian Nazi, possibly 18 or 19 years previous, operating after her with hatred in his eyes, pointing his gun at her chest, swearing at her and telling her ‘how did you dare to tear off the yellow star,” Miller stated, including that the soldier threatened to kill her and make her mom rejoin the road with out her. 

Miller instructed Fox Information Digital that her mom then took off her golden marriage ceremony ring and provided it to the soldier. 

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Three generations of the Miller household marched with Marianne Miller on the 2024 March of the Residing in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Courtesy picture)

“Look, this little child. She’s sleeping peacefully in my arms. She did not do something to you. Please let me go. Take this ring,” Miller recalled her mom saying within the second. 

“The younger Nazi was turning the ring round in his hand. Possibly on this minute, he discovered a tiny little bit of humanity or mercy,” Miller added. “My mom ran away into the darkness. And he did not observe her. 

“We have been saved,” Miller stated, describing the scene as certainly one of “the numerous miracles that I’m right here right this moment and may inform my story.” 

Final yr, Miller appeared alongside her son Adir Miller — an Israeli comic — in “The Ring,” a movie impressed by her story.  

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Marianne Miller, proven right here as a toddler, instructed Fox Information Digital that she’s going to unfold a message of “do not hate, love,” on the U.N. Basic Meeting on Monday. (Courtesy picture)

Miller additionally participated within the Worldwide March of the Residing, an annual Holocaust remembrance occasion and academic program. The nonprofit says she “shared her story of survival with hundreds of members becoming a member of commemorative marches via each Budapest in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland” and there “she expressed her dream of addressing world leaders on the U.N. to inform her story.” 

It helped organize Miller’s go to to U.N. headquarters, the place she is predicted to talk to greater than 1,000 folks. 

Miller instructed Fox Information Digital that “the Holocaust was essentially the most horrifying, ugliest, most horrible, most unbelievable a part of the human historical past” and “God has created males to like, to not hate.” 

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“The Holocaust ought to by no means, by no means, by no means once more occur,” Miller stated, describing what her message shall be to the U.N. “By no means once more. By no means once more. And please assist us convey again our hostages. Do not hate. Do not hate, love.”