i'm here, hopefully to tell young people that i count on them. >> reporter: edie was just 16 years old when she arrived at auschwitz from her native hungary with her family in may 1944. nazi physician joseph was standing at the end of the train platform. known as the angel of death, he performed cruel and often deadly medical experiments on his prisoners. >> he pointed my mom to go to the left and i followed her. he came after me, grabbed me. i never forget those eyes. he said, your mother is just going to take a shower. you'll see her soon. >> reporter: edie never saw her again. both her parents were killed in the gas chambers of auschwitz