A Gold Coast-based Holocaust survivor has shared his unlikely story of survival from Nazi-invaded Poland.

Peter Baruch dedicates his time to teaching school kids about the Holocaust.

He spoke to Neil Breen on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the end of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945.

“I was born in a city called Łódź in Poland, population about 700,000 before the war,” he said.

“About a third of them were Jewish.”

When the Nazis invaded Poland, his parents fled to Lithuania.

“There we were fortunate enough to meet with a Japanese vice-consul by the name of Chiune Sugihara, and we became what became known as Sugihara survivors, he saved some 6000 from the Holoaust, all Polish Jews who had crossed the border.”

He has spoken to around 2,500 schools and groups about his experience.

Press PLAY below to hear his story on 4BC Breakfast

It’s also been revealed a quarter of all Australians don’t know about the Holocaust, and around a third of millenials.

The lack of knowledge was revealed in Australia’s first national survey of Holocaust knowledge done by Deakin University.

It will be used to push for consistent and mandatory Holocaust education in school curriculums across the country.

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