"I stayed alive to tell" - Auschwitz's dwindling survivors recount horrors of Nazi death camp

Holocaust survivor Avraham Harshalom, 95, looks at a photograph of himself as a young man during an interview with Reuters at his home in Ramat Gan, Israel December 24, 2019. REUTERS/Nir Elias

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A strip of skin tattooed with the Auschwitz death camp number 99288 sits in a silver frame on a shelf in Avraham Harshalom's living room. It is his prisoner number, etched on to his forearm in 1943.

As the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation on Jan 27, 1945, nears, Harshalom, 95, is very clear about why he kept it.