40,000 were liberated. he and his wife have been married for 75 years. for most of those year, he didn t talk about the war. but several years ago he was an honored guest at the united states holocaust memorial museum in washington and walked through a train box car exhibit. this was a very nice looking box car. but when i got at that box car to walk through it, that is when i broke down. reporter: hilbert is since on a mission to teach and inspire. he speaks to schools and organizations. let s give a warm welcome. reporter: and late last week, it was to hundreds of students at atlanta s st. pius x catholic school. close to 32,000 prisoners in those barracks when we were there that sunday morning. reporter: but he s never considered his speeches more important than he does today because of what happened in israel on october 7. in all the years you ve been back from the war, and it has been almost 80 years, have you ever seen anti-semitic osm in t country as bad as