To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, AFP met with survivors around the world. Holocaust survivor Lea Zajac de Novera, 98, was born on December 31, 1926, in Michalowo, a town in the Bialystok province of Poland. At the start of the war, she lived with her family under Soviet occupation until 1942, when they were relocated to the Pruzhany ghetto. In 1943, she was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Zajac recalls her mother shouting, "Lea, run!" upon arrival at the camp, adding, "My little sister saw me run and began to run after me, but they spotted her, beat her, and threw her onto the truck. She was taken away along with our entire family. And I remained there... I'll never forget the last look from my mother." At Auschwitz, she worked collecting rubble and sorting the clothes of those killed in the gas chambers. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES