A Holocaust survivor who described the genocide as the most “horrific” and “incredible part of human history,” tells Fox News Digital she will spread a message of “don’t hate, love” when she addresses the UN General Assembly on Monday.
Marianne Miller was born in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II and traveled from Israel to speak in New York City on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Miller says she was in her mother’s arms during the Holocaust when she managed to escape a line of women marching to a train station, where a train was waiting to take them to Auschwitz.
“I am a Holocaust survivor. I can still say in the first pronoun, ‘I’ve been there,’” Miller told Fox News Digital. “Every day Holocaust survivors leave us and there will be very few left.”
‘It didn’t happen in the Middle Ages only happened 80 years ago,” she added. “I came to represent 6 million people who cannot tell their stories.”
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Violetta Nobel, left, and her daughter Marianne Miller, a Holocaust survivor. (Courtesy photo/Fox News)
Miller said that on a “cold, freezing December night” in 1944, her mother came up with a plan that ultimately saved both of their lives.
“There is a quiet march of mothers holding their children. The direction is the train station and the destination is Auschwitz,” Miller said. “I’m in my mother’s arms, and then she does something that no one did before her or after her.”
Miller recalled how her mother tore off the yellow star she was wearing and then ran out of the line, hid under a fence and thought no one had seen her.
“There was a young Hungarian Nazi, maybe 18 or 19 years old, who ran after her with hatred in his eyes, pointed his gun at her chest, cursed at her and said to her: ‘how dare you take off the yellow star to pull,” Miller said, adding that the soldier threatened to kill her and let her mother get back on the phone without her.
Miller told Fox News Digital that her mother then took off her gold wedding ring and offered it to the soldier.
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Three generations of the Miller family marched with Marianne Miller during the 2024 March of the Living in Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Thanks photo)
“Look, this little baby. She sleeps peacefully in my arms. She didn’t do anything to you. Please let me go. Take this ring,” Miller recalled her mother saying at that moment.
“The young Nazi turned the ring around in his hand. Perhaps in this minute he found a little bit of humanity or mercy,” Miller added. ‘My mother ran away into the darkness. And he didn’t follow her.
“We were saved,” Miller said, describing the scene as one of “the many miracles that I am here today and able to tell my story.”
Last year, Miller appeared alongside her son Adir Miller – an Israeli comedian – in “The Ring,” a film inspired by her story.
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Marianne Miller, pictured here as a child, told Fox News Digital that she will spread a “don’t hate, love” message at the UN General Assembly on Monday. (Thanks photo)
Miller also participated in the International March of the Living, an annual Holocaust memorial event and educational program. The nonprofit says she “shared her survival story with thousands of participants who took part in memorial marches through both Budapest in Hungary and Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland” and there “she expressed her dream of addressing world leaders at the UN to tell her story .”
It helped arrange Miller’s visit to UN Headquarters, where she is expected to address more than 1,000 people.
Miller told Fox News Digital that “the Holocaust was the most gruesome, ugliest, most terrible and most incredible part of human history” and “God created people to love, not to hate.”
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“The Holocaust must never, ever happen again,” Miller said, describing what her message to the UN will be. ‘Never again. Never again. And please help us bring back our hostages. , Love.”
