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Posted By admin on April 20, 2024

Joseph Alexander wanted to educate young people about the truths of the Holocaust and hoped to prevent it from happening again.

CHICO, Calif. - Pleasant Valley High School welcomed a special guest speaker, a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor named Joseph Alexander.

Alexander said he wants to educate young people about the truths of the Holocaust and hopes to prevent it from ever happening again. He is from Kowal, Poland and said he survived 12 concentration camps.

Alexander said he was 17 when he was separated from his family and spent the next six years in different camps. He was separated from his parents and five siblings and never saw most of them again.

Alexander said he never lost hope in the camps.

I was determined to survive. I wanted to survive, so I was very determined, and that's how I survived. I came back because I survived. Hitler didn't, Alexander said.

In the camps, Alexander said he saw unimaginable things. He saw everything from people starving to being beaten to death.

After Alexander was liberated, he made his way to California in 1949.

Alexander has spoken to hundreds of thousands of students over the years.

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