The immersive experience was overwhelming.

He cried as he removed the virtual reality headset.

"It made me feel very bad, yes, I felt... all these things came back into my head."

Haberman attended the screening of immersive film "Triumph of the Spirit"

which offers 360-degree views of Auschwitz.

More than 1.1 million people, around 90% of them Jewish, were killed at Auschwitz,

one of a network of camps run by Nazi Germany on occupied Polish soil during World War Two.

Haberman was sent there on a cattle train.

While he survived, his mother and six siblings were killed in the camp's gas chambers.

"I recalled there were three steps, and on the side there was some kind of bench where we put all the food, that they brought, and we didn't know what Block 10 was (where Nazi doctors conducted experiments on humans), but we did see that the wall of death was there and many times we saw how people stood there and were shot."

For those who survived the Holocaust more than 70 years ago, the memories can never be erased.

But their generation is dying out.

Educators and historians are looking for new ways to keep their experience alive and connect to younger people.

Filmmakers behind the "Triumph of the Spirit" hope that technologies like VR will help preserve history.

Miriam Cohen is one of the co-creators of the film.

"The fact that this is a top technology and that young people are into this technology, it helps us capture their attention and then when they put these headsets on, that's it, they are yours."

16-year-old seminary student David Bitton watched the film in Jerusalem.

"You see the shoes of the people, you see the.. all of their stuff, on the side and they go and.. I don't know how to explain this, you just feel it, you can't explain it, it's too complicated to explain but you need to watch it and when you watch it it's like a nightmare that you don't want to be in."