Mom would sneak into the children’s barracks at night and force me to repeat: my name is Lyuda, 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 photograph spread around the world: Pope Francis bowed his head to a Holocaust survivor and kissed the tattoo with the camp number on her hand. This woman was 81-year-old Lidiya Maksimovich, a Belarusian prisoner at Birkenau, the worst Auschwitz death camp. Her family, who joined the partisans, ended up in a camp when she was only three years old. The Belarusian forests became the last light that Lydia saw before descending into the darkness of the camp. The little girl has to endure not only separation from her mother, hunger and the horror of near death, but also the inhumane experiments of Joseph Mengele... She left there in January 1945, hand in hand with a Polish woman who decided to adopt one of the “orphans” who were freezing in a camp strewn with corpses . Lydia stayed with her adoptive mother, but 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 inhuman conditions only by carrying love for your family in your heart and believing that good will definitely win.