Auschwitz survivors share with youth

OSWIECIM, Poland -- Aging survivors of the Auschwitz death camp shared their stories with young Poles and Germans Saturday in the first Holocaust education program financed by a German fund for Nazi-era slave laborers.

About 160 youth from across Poland and Germany are participating in the three-day program led by 35 camp survivors.

The participants included young people from the southern Polish city of Oswiecim, where the Auschwitz death camp was built. Although raised in the presence of the camp, participants said they learned more about it from the survivors' tales than from their history books.

"I came here because I want to learn from witnesses about what happened here," said 17-year-old Joanna Jarosz.