Triad survivors of the Holocaust reflect on the past, present, and future on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.The United Nations General Assembly designated Jan. 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's a day to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.According to History, the Holocaust was the systemic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its allies and collaborators. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”— now known as the Holocaust — came to fruition under the cover of World War II, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland. Approximately six million Jews and some five million others targeted for racial, political, ideological, biological and behavioral reasons, died in the Holocaust. More than one million of those who perished were children.To learn more about the history of the Holocaust, please click here.WINSTON-SALEM HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR:To better understand the annual day of commemoration, WXII 12 News talked with Margot Lobree, a survivor of the Holocaust. Lobree said she was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and was seven years old when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933.On Nov. 9, 1938 — an incident now known as “Kristallnacht” — Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed Jewish people. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish people were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Following Kristallnacht, England established the Kindertransport to rescue 10,000 children from Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, Lobree said. She shared that she could not go to Israel with her brother since she was not old enough, so her mother dropped her off at a train station to head to England on April 9, 1939. Lobree was one of the 10,000 children saved, she shared.Her mother did not survive, she told WXII 12 News.When the children arrived in England, Lobree said children were either sponsored, had to go to an orphanage, a farm or a hostel.She said she was fortunate to receive sponsorship.When the Nazi regime invaded Poland in 1939, she said, "in September that year, war broke out in Europe. I lived with the family. I ate with a maid in the kitchen. I did housework before and after school. And when war broke out and bombing started in Italy, the family evacuated, and left the maid and myself in London to face the bombing."Lobree later lived in a hostel with other children for about two years. She met a friend there, and they both ventured out on their own and decided to move to London, where they lived in a hostel, and later in an apartment.Lobree said she did not see her brother for 25 years, until 1963."As an adult, I realized the course of my situation, as a Holocaust survivor, of what I have been deprived of in my childhood," she said. "I was deprived of a secure home. I was deprived from a good education. I was deprived of learning how to be an adult in a safe environment. I had to do what was right or wrong. Because if I did wrong, there was nobody there to help me."GREENSBORO HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR:WXII 12 News also talked with Shelly Weiner from Greensboro, a Holocaust survivor.Weiner was born in a small town in Ukraine.In 1941, she said Nazi soldiers arrived and killed 17,500 Jewish people — fathers, mothers, children, elderly — in her town."My whole family, my grandfather that I love very much, my uncles, my aunts, my cousins, the entire family, were murdered," Weiner said. However, Weiner, her mother, her aunt, and her cousin were able to escape, she said.Weiner's mother begged a nearby farmer to hide her and her family. She said the farmer's son saw the horror of the Nazi regime, and convinced his father to hide them.The farmers hid Weiner and her loved ones, despite the danger the farmers would face."It was very dangerous for non-Jews to help Jews because the punishment was death. Not only for them, but their entire family," she said. "The neighbors were always informing, did you know you’d get two pounds of sugar if you turn a Jew in. So it was very dangerous. I have no idea to this day how brave this family was to hide us."Weiner and her family hid inside a barn for roughly 20 months, and when they heard Nazi soldiers were possibly coming, they hid inside a bunker out in the woods that the farmer had built for them. She said the farmer "covered it with leaves and branches and we were underground. And it was even worse than the barn. We just had straw on the ground. It was very damp, dark, and the rats and mice were triple or 100 times more."They hid there for more than two years."We couldn’t go outside… We suffered hunger. We suffered cold. We suffered heat," she said.When the war ended in 1945, Weiner's father came back from the war, and she and her parents moved to the United States.To this day, Weiner still reflects on the past, and on the present.She educates students of all grades about the history and the importance of remembering the Holocaust. She said, "I believe even if I reach only one child, it’s very important they know about the atrocities that have occurred. And not only that, I feel very strongly that the world doesn’t stop. There are still atrocities going on now all over the world. And we have to be vigilant about that."WAKE FOREST RABBI:WXII 12 News talked with Levi Gurevitz, who's been a rabbi at Wake Forest University for more than two years. Gurevitz said his great-grandfather was killed in the Holocaust, and his grandmother was the sole survivor of his family. He said his family was killed within two days in March 1941."For me and many Jewish people throughout the nation, it’s not just a historic day and a day to remember, but it’s something personal," he said. "Something we live with every day. We try to remember, remember it so it doesn’t happen again. And if we don’t remember our history, it’s bound to repeat it."Gurevitz has two children, and while they are fairly young, he said, "I try to make sure they live in a way that would make my grandmother proud."He stressed while many of the younger generations may not understand the significance of the Holocaust, he said it's important to educate them. He said prejudice is still alive around the world, and in the United States."I try to make sure we understand what happened," he said. "And how it happened to ensure the next generation grows up. If you allow prejudice to exist or prosper, where the end of it can be. It’s our job to make sure we educate them about the past. We can live in the future. It’s crucial that we always remember our history, especially as something as horrific as that, and the only way to ensure it doesn’t happen again, is to remember it happened."HOW TO REMEMBER:During the 2022 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Virtual Commemoration, Holocaust survivors reflected on and honored the lives of Europe’s Jews — who were targeted for annihilation — other victims of Nazi persecution, and people who chose to help.The virtual event began Wednesday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m. ET.People can also share their reflections about International Holocaust Remembrance Day on social media using #HolocaustRemembranceDay and follow the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to honor Holocaust victims and survivors all year long.