Henry Greenbaum was born in Poland in 1928. He was one of nine children. Even before the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, Greenbaum's family sensed that trouble was coming. One of his sisters had married and moved to the U.S. two years earlier. In addition to the invasion, Henry's father died and the family scrambled to make ends meet. But before long, some members of his family were dead. Others had fled, and Henry and others were eventually headed for for the Nazi labor and death camps.

In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," Greenbaum takes us step by step through his harrowing story under Naxi occupation in Poland and the horrors of the holocaust. He tells us about life in the horrific Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and the miraculous circumstances of how he survived as the Allies advanced at the end of the war.

Finally, Mr, Greenbaum shares the lessons of the Holocaust that every one of us needs to know and remember so that it never happens again.