A Holocaust survivor is using his experience in a concentration camp to teach students.
86-year-old Eugen Shoenfeld was only 18 years old when he and his family, who were Jewish, were sent to a concentration camp.
He spent 13 months total in camps at Auschwitz, Dachau, Muhldorf, and Warsaw.
He travels to spread his philosophy to younger generations.
"The older have a duty to the young ones to share with them their experiences we cannot we cannot learn unless someone shares their experiences," Schoenfeld says.
He shared those memories with seventh and eighth graders.
Shoenfeld believes another Holocaust is possible if we give up our freedom, and says people are more likely to do that when the economy gets tough.
"Never follow a leader because he promises all kinds of things. Be judgemental of that leader, create your own thought, follow your own thought, make evaluations don't give up your freedom," he says.
Shoenfeld never saw his mother, sister, or younger brother again, and even through a Holocaust, he says he isn't bitter.
"What use is being bitter? Bitterness is state that you can only hurt yourself no one else, the important thing for me to do is learn from it."
He says the biggest thing he's learned is to judge individuals.
"Even among the Nazis I found people who were human beings," he says.
After his release from the camps in 1945, Shoenfeld immigrated to the U.S. He has been married to his wife, Jean, for 62 years, and is a great-grandfather.
"I had a good life, no ifs buts or ands about it, it was difficult but it was a good life."
Shoenfeld was a professor at Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and Kennesaw.
He is now retired and travels telling his story.