Jan. 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a day we remember the six million Jews and millions more minorities, people of color, LGBTQ, people with disabilities and others killed by the Nazi regime and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.

Jan. 27 was chosen for the day of remembrance as it is the same day that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army in 1945.

On Friday, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education shared the story of one Holocaust survivor who later became a Portland resident, Miriam Greenstein.

Miriam was just nine years old when Germany occupied her home country of Poland.

By the time she was 16, Miriam had survived three years in the Lodz ghetto, the atrocities of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and a slave labor camp in Germany.

She was the only member of her immediate family to survive.

After she was liberated, she came to live with an aunt and uncle in Portland.

She married and became a mother, but for nearly four decades never spoke about what she went through.

She later had a change of heart and began talking to student and community groups about the importance of speaking up and wrote an autobiography called "In the Shadow of Death.”

She served for years on the board of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and was a founding member for the building of the Oregon Holocaust Memorial in Portland’s Washington Park.

Miriam died in 2018 at the age of 89.

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.