My mother would sneak into the children's barracks at night and make me repeat: my name is Luda, I am five years old, I am the daughter of Belarusian partisans, I was taken to Birkenau. She wanted me to remember my story.In May 2021, a photo flew around the world: Pope Francis bowed his head in front of a Holocaust survivor and kissed a tattoo with a camp number on her arm. This woman was 81-year-old Lidia Maksimovich, a Belarusian prisoner of Birkenau — the most terrible Auschwitz death camp. Her family, who went to the partisans, got into the camp when she was only three years old. The Belarusian forests became the last light that Lydia saw before she descended into the darkness of the camp. The little girl will have to go through not only separation from her mother, hunger and the horror of near death, but also the inhuman experiments of Josef Mengele...She came out of there in January 1945, by the hand of a Polish woman who decided to adopt one of the "orphans" who were freezing in a camp littered with corpses. Lydia stayed with her foster mother, but she did not forget her real mother, did not stop looking for her all her life — and found her in the Soviet Union many years later. Her incredible story shows that you can survive in inhumane conditions only by bringing love to your family into your heart and believing that good will definitely win.