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How we survived Auschwitz, in the shadow of the gas chambers and crematoria. Testimonial interview with Otto Fulop, survivor of the Birkenau camp - Auschwitz. "I can forgive everyone, but I don't think I can forgive the executioners." Octavian Fulop survived the Holocaust and believes he has a duty to tell his story of living in the Nazi concentration camps, so that the world doesn't forget that such a thing was possible. History teacher Octavian Fulop was 13 and a half years old when he arrived at Auschwitz and saw how the Nazis could decide who lives and who dies, simply by dividing the crowds of Jews into the left and right groups. Octavian Fulop, Holocaust survivor: "We were quickly, quickly lined up five in a row, men separately, women separately, and the so-called selection began. The first selection, left meaning death, right, life. We entered the camp lined up. Those of us who were on the left, we had no idea that, on the very same day, they were liquidated, they came out through the smoke of the crematoria." Six million Jews were killed in an unprecedented, total and systematic genocide carried out by Nazi Germany. Octavian Fulop believes that he remained alive because his faith in God and the fact that he took care never to be alone helped him.