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“Many times, I should be dead,” recounted Clara Daniels Fried, 85, a native of Hungary, as she spoke to the eighth grade Literacy class at Lewiston Middle School on Monday about surviving the holocaust and Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps. “I don’t understand. I am the only one from my family to survive.” Fried was brought to the school by Noelle Giguere, 14, right, after her class spent a month studying the holocaust and reading “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.” Fried spoke of arriving in Auschwitz at the age of 20, and watching her mother, little brother, and aunts being taken to their deaths. In May 1945, American troopers liberated the concentration camp where she was and Fried found only that an uncle and four cousins had survived the holocaust.