Irene Weiss: The Soul Never Forgets

How do you live with loss that is beyond comprehension? When Irene Weiss was 13 years old she and her family were deported to Auschwitz. She and her older sister were the only survivors. Now 93 years old, Irene talks with Anderson about how she survived and how she has lived with grief ever since. Visit the All There Is online grief community at cnn.com/allthereisonline and watch the video version on YouTube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A must listen

This episode is haunting and heartbreaking but for the fact that it is told by a survivor, you have a rare glimpse of hope throughout her story. I have read a lot on the holocaust but the first person account of coming back to her own home and finding people in it, of looking around… I think that was a moment that not only could I personally feel, I have not heard anything about that perspective before. It was so very touching and human.