Hilda Mantelmacher doesn't remember how old she was when the Nazis came for her family, and she doesn't know how old she is today.

She spent time at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Her parents and younger brother died in the gas chamber upon their arrival.

Mantelmacher never spoke about her experience until a few years ago, when she heard people deny the Holocaust.

Now she's committed to telling her story as hard as it might be.

"I don't celebrate any birthdays or holidays because holidays, my mother used to start cooking and baking for holidays, weeks ahead of time, but I don't do anything. Every day is a holiday for me,” said Mantelmacher.

Mantelmacher now lives in Harrisburg.

The lecture was part of the sixth graders’ language arts curriculum on tolerance.

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