“I am not a survivor, I was just a child that survived.”

Those were the words spoken by 68-year old Holocaust survivor Conrad Weiner to the Clermont Northeastern High School freshman class Feb. 29.

Weiner, who speaks about his childhood experiences in a Nazi labor camp with horror and reverence, shares his story to students about the Holocaust to enlighten, inspire, and most importantly, to educate.

“They say that if we do not learn from our past mistakes, we are condemned to repeat them,” he said. “I hope that the sharing of my story helps young people understand that.”

Conrad Weiner was born in Romania in 1938. At the age of three and a half, he and his mother were seized from their home by the Romanian Island Guard and sent to a forced Nazi labor camp in the Ukraine called Budi.