On this day in history 63 years ago, the armed forces of Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered to the World War II allies in what is now known as Victory in Europe, or VE Day.

Nothing makes this day more significant than those who lived up to that day under a plan of deliberate extermination led by Adolf Hitler, when an estimated six million Jews were killed.

A Holocaust survivor recently visited Wisconsin and shared her heartbreaking story of being one of the few who bore a yellow star and was lucky enough to live and tell about it.

Here name is Inge Auerbacher, and she was just three years old when the Holocaust began for her on Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. It was November 9th, 1938 when Jews were attacked and Jewish property destroyed across Germany.

“The riot began. All our windows were broken,” Inge recalled. “We were standing in the living room. We couldn’t understand what was going on. I was holding onto my mom.”

Inge recalls glass being everywhere.

“Our beautiful synagogue – totally desecrated. Ripped apart,” she said. “Ours they didn’t burn down because there were Christian houses nearby but they ripped it apart.”

Inge said even their holy scrolls, the holiest things the Jews had, were ripped apart in their synagogue. Her, her family and all other Jews in Germany couldn’t understand what was happening.

“My father, who was a disabled war veteran from World War I, never believed anything could happen to him, after, all, he was a patriotic German. He had the Iron Cross. He fought for the country,” said Inge. “Nobody cared anymore he had the Iron Cross, he was a patriotic German – didn’t matter. He was, to them, a dirty Jew.”

“He realized at that point we had to leave Germany. But how? Where? The doors to the free world were closing,” Inge recalled.

Unfortunately Inge and her family didn’t get out and soon after found themselves like most European Jews – living in concentration camps.

Tune into NewsChannel 7 at ten as Inge recalls life at Terezin, a ghetto used by the Nazis as a transit camp before inmates were to be deported to eastern killing centers.