WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Speaks at Kent Stage

"We had gone to hell and back."

That was how Eva Schloss, an 82-year-old survivor of the Holocaust, described her liberation from the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp near the end of World War II.

Schloss visited with local high school students Tuesday afternoon at the , where Schloss answered questions from the students following a staged reading of And Then They Came for Me; Remembering the World of Anne Frank.

The reading, sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program at , featured a cast of characters who played the roles of holocaust survivors in their youth during the war. The characters reenacted the survivors' lives in time with a video of the survivors themselves helping to retell their stories.

The reading started with Kristallnacht in 1938 when German Nazi soldiers destroyed the homes and businesses of Jews in Germany. The characters then told the stories of Schloss and her family and those of Frank and her family as they fled Germany. Some evaded the German soldiers. Others, like Schloss, found themselves in concentration camps.

Schloss recanted stories of lice, rat and bed-bug infested barracks at the concentration camp. She told the students about the gas chambers, and how prisoners were forced to remove the dead bodies.

One student asked Schloss if she felt guilty for surviving while others, like Frank, did not.

"Otto Frank actually felt very, very guilty," she said. "My mother felt as well guilty because her son didn't survive. But young people generally didn't have this guilty feeling.

"I was very happy that I made it, you know," she said. "The guilt that does exist is very often with parents who lost their children."