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Please watch the video. It’s a reminder of why we must never forget history.

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY is January 27

For more than six decades, Sol Finkelstein didn’t know his father’s fate.

In 1945, just days before liberation at Mauthausen concentration camp, Sol and his father were separated, and Sol never saw him again.

Sol’s son Joseph recently contacted our Museum in hopes of finding more information about his grandfather. Our staff discovered the date and place of his death, and Sol’s family was able to visit his grave in Austria.

After learning that Sol had no photos of his father, our staff searched further and found an identification card with a picture of Sol’s father. For the first time since he was a teenager Sol saw his father’s face—a moment he graciously allowed us to capture on film.  

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