Few are left who survived the Holocaust, or those who broke open the death-camp doors and freed the condemned. It is up to us now to never again allow hatred and intolerance to drown out our humanity and respect for the lives of others.

As time passes and fewer Holocaust survivors are still with us, some Mainers have dedicated their livelihoods to keeping their stories alive.

Today, the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, perhaps the most notorious of Nazi concentration and extermination camps.