Helen (Halina) Silber, who attributed surviving the Holocaust to her transfer from Auschwitz to an ammunition and enamelware factory owned by the German industrialist, Oskar Schindler, died on Oct. 25 in Baltimore. She was 93.

Arriving at Auschwitz at the outset of WWII, she told the members of the Young Israel Shomrai Emunah synagogue in 2019, “I saw endless rows and rows of barbed wire. I could smell the stench of burning flesh…There is no room here for miracles.”

But she was selected to work in Schindler’s factory, and ended up as No. 16 on Schindler’s list of the hundreds he helped to escape. Speaking in 2015 at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event at a Maryland school, she said “You are the last generation to hear of our suffering and the miracles by which we survived the Holocaust. Many of the survivors have passed away and so, when the rest of us will be gone, we hope you will keep reminding the world of our past.”

She spent the final years of her life speaking to groups about the lessons of her long and remarkable life.