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MBU students heard a moving story of survival and redemption Jan. 28 when a holocaust survivor recounted her experiences.

Maria Szapszewics was born in Poland. Her brothers and father died during the Holocaust. Szapszewics told the MBU student body during its weekly convocation how she survived despite liing in two ghettos during World War II. She was forced to work in an ammunition factory before being sent to a concentration camp.

Weighing a mere 55 pounds and near death, Szapszewics was liberated from the camp on April 15, 1945.