Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that ...

For family Passover Seders, Dr. Ornstein wrote stories about her Holocaust experiences, which she collected into a book.

Anna Ornstein, 87, photographed at her residence in Brookline, Massachusetts, is a survivor of the Nazi’s Auschwitz concentration camp, which was liberated 70 years ago as of Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015.

Anna Ornstein: “Now, first, you had to get out of the car. And you are being pushed and shoved. When we are here in this studio, you don't hear the dogs barking, ...

Anna Ornstein said in an interview Monday she believed her husband’s self-esteem, and hers, enabled them to survive and shaped their outlook on the academic discipline they chose.

But survivor Dr. Anna Ornstein, 91, told a story of not just horror but of liberation, hope and pride as she spoke to an overflow crowd at a gathering Feb. 11 at the Chelmsford Public Library.

According to Anna Ornstein, 89, who answered a Globe reporter's questions with her husband, the basis for the book was an autobiography that Ornstein wrote for a German publication in 2007.

NEW YORK --On a freezing January day, Anna Ornstein was one of a few visitors on the memorial plaza at Ground Zero as she ran her hands along the massive bronze tablets into which thousands of names o ...