On 4 June, Esther Senot, a French-Jewish Auschwitz survivor born in Poland in 1928, was a guest at the French Embassy in Berlin. She was invited to talk with pupils from Potsdam and Berlin about her memories and experiences during the time of persecution, and deportation to Auschwitz, where her parents and one of her brothers were murdered in the gas chambers of Birkenau.

Esther Senot, who is now 96 years old, has been a "contemporary witness" since 1985. Together with Isabelle Ernot from the French Union des déportés d'Auschwitz (UDA), she published her memories of the time of the Shoah: La petite fille du passage Ronce (The little girl from the Passage Ronce).

After the event with many questions from the young people, Esther Senot talked to Michèle Déodat from the International Auschwitz Committee and Isabelle Ernot about how two of the young girls had asked her to show them her tattooed number on her forearm.And then they took a selfie with her. "No," said Esther Senot, "I didn’t think they were being intrusive. This is a new generation, they won't read my book. But at some point in the future, they will remember our encounter and talk about it: Auschwitz − we actually saw a woman with that kind of number. Her name was Esther."