Holocaust survivors like Miriam and Howard dedicated their lives to giving  a voice to the victims of the Nazi regime's inhumanity. But their generation  will not last forever.
We must perpetuate their stories and  lessons:
Miriam was nine years old the day Auschwitz Birkenau was liberated  – one of the youngest  survivors of the  camp.
After the liberation,  not knowing if her family was alive, she left a note with her name at the local train station,  which was later found by a family friend.
She told me how, in the days after  the liberation, she returned to Krakow to face  hatred and violence  – because she was  Jewish. The rise  of anti-Semitism around the world is  well known, he told me. We must  ensure that history never repeats  itself.
Howard was  just 10  years old when Nazi Germany  occupied his home  in Wierzbnik, Poland. In 1942, his family was forcibly  separated: his mother and sisters  were sent to  the Treblinka death  camp, while Howard, his father, and his brother were forced into  forced labor.
Only he and his brother  survived. I am grateful to meet these  amazing Holocaust survivors, to hear them share the horrors  they witnessed, and to  have the responsibility to act on their lessons  – now and in the years to come.