PHOTOS: How a Sacramento Holocaust survivor's family photos were preserved during World War II

Si so Su Grande Grande Fredo, it wasn't such *** huge leap of the imagination for Italians to also join in and participate in the persecution of Jews. It was sophisticated and planned and industrialized. How did, how did Children survive? I, I don't know, maybe I was more strong. We become the witnesses. Chetan, you know, um when you're here with me, you're doing it with me. Um But when I'm gone, then you're doing it for me. Seeing it in real life is much more impactful than just setting it in the book. So I really wanted to come here and experience it for myself. Oh my God. Every time she tells her story, there's new things. There's something you've never heard before, whether you were at Auschwitz or at another camp, you became *** number. You became *** thing in nec, say Cuatro to your mother seemed to know why they would put *** tattoo on you and refer to you by number. And she told you something very important about your own name. What is it she told you? Yes, always remember your name.

It's not common for people who endured the atrocities of the Holocaust to have photos and other personal belongings from their life before it began.

Andra and Tatiana Bucci, two sisters who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland as children, can say that they still have some of theirs.

But how?

The Bucci sisters and their mother Mira were arrested by Nazis in Italy on March 29, 1944, and put on a train that was headed to Auschwitz.

While they were on the train, Mira wrote a note with their names on it and threw it outside. The Bucci sisters said that at the time they were unsure how that action would help the family down the line.

The note their mother wrote was found by an Italian police officer who recognized their names. He gave the note to family members on the sisters' father's side and they went to the Bucci's house.

For the entirety of the war, they hid all of their belongings, and to this day the Bucci sisters still have many family photos from their life before the Holocaust.

To see some of their photos from their life before, during and after World War II, look below.

If you want to learn more about the Bucci sisters' story of perseverance and how they are helping educate people on the Holocaust today, watch KCRA 3's "Always Remember Your Name" documentary here.