Ruth Cohen, a 94-year-old American Holocaust survivor, returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland for the first time. She recalled seeing family members before they were separated for the last time at the camp.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the families of two survivors who resettled in Pittsburgh shared their stories.

Rea Golfarb did not go to one of the Nazi extermination camps, but she bore witness to other Nazi atrocities. “Out of about 3,000 in my town, less than three dozen survived,” Goldfarb told visitors at the U.