middle of the shooting. he's the one that really saved my life. >> reporter: it isn't the first time he escaped death. this is him as a young boy after seeing more death than life inside a nazi death camp in germany. >> to see somebody dead you walked around out of respect, but eventually we were weakening. we stepped on them. we could hear their bones cracking. didn't mean anything. by day seven i have seen more death that be life. you see irving younger, he was the first one to get killed. >> reporter: at 80, the targeting of jews yet again changed the way he looked at his sane na going to for a while. i looked at this and i said this looks like a tomb stone there's no holiness emanating from this building. and 11 bodies in it. it's a cemetery. >> reporter: a year later. >> everything passes. >> reporter: all he wants to do is go back to his sanctuary. >> how long have you been going