Twins who survived Holocaust describe their parents' courage in Bergen-Belsen: "They were just determined to keep us alive"
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The Hess family, like millions of Jews, was taken from their home in Amsterdam by the Nazis in 1943.
After spending time at Westerbork, a transport camp in Holland, the family of four was sent by train in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp where more than 50,000 people died — including Anne Frank — twins Steven and Marion Hess, just 6 at the time, credit their parents for keeping them together.
"The Holocaust seems like ancient history, so we have to find a way for it not to be that, for it to be a lasting lesson," Marion Ein Lewin told CBS News.
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower spent the remaining hours of daylight with the paratroopers who were about to jump behind German lines into occupied France. A single moment captured by an Army photographer became the most enduring image of America's greatest military operation.