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YEAH. ASHLEY, A HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL SERVICE HERE IN HOWARD COUNTY WHERE WE HEARD TWO MEN SPECIFICALLY TELL THEIR STORIES OF THEIR FATHERS. ONE THE SON OF A SURVIVOR. THE OTHER THE SON OF A LIBERATOR. VERY MUCH ALIVE, THE SON OF A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND THE SON OF A HOLOCAUST LIBERATOR. IRONICALLY, CROSSING PATHS JUST LIKE THEIR FATHERS DID DURING WORLD WAR TWO. APRIL 1945. AND THEY COME UPON THIS CAMP AND THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. STEVE DEBAGGIO TELLING US THE STORY OF HIS FATHER, WHO WAS SERVING IN THE U.S. ARMY AT THE TIME, THE SMALL CAMP THEY FOUND WAS THE CAMP. STEVE SALZBERG’S FATHER WAS IN. ALL THAT WAS LEFT WAS THE DEAD AND THE DYING. AND THAT’S WHAT THE SOLDIERS FOUND WHEN THEY WALKED IN. THERE WAS THIS THESE MEN IN NEAR DEATH FOR MY DAD. IT WAS THERE WERE 200 WALKING SKELETONS THAT WERE FREED AND NURSED BACK TO HEALTH. SALZBERG SAYS HIS FATHER WAS FREED WITH THE HELP OF DEBAGGIO’S FATHER. DECADES LATER, IN BEL AIR, MARYLAND, THE TWO CROSSING PATHS DURING A HOLOCAUST ASSEMBLY AT THE JOHN CARROLL SCHOOL. THE FATHER. LIBERATED. ALL MY GOD. AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT FOR EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE. I REMEMBER LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. STEVE SALZBERG STANDS UP AND SAYS, YOU KNOW, YOUR FATHER LIBERATED MY FATHER. I’M TELLING YOU, I STILL HAVE GOOSEBUMPS A MOMENT. NOW, LEADING THE TWO SITTING SIDE BY SIDE TONIGHT AT TEMPLE ISAIAH FOR AN ANNUAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL SERVICE, OR YOM HASHOAH. REMEMBERING THE 6 MILLION LIVES LOST AS WE NOW MARK 80 YEARS SINCE THE LIBERATION OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. THAT’S JUST A BLINK OF THE EYE. BUT WE NEED TO REMEMBER AND LEARN. WE CAN’T THINK OF IT AS ANCIENT HISTORY THAT WE DON’T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT CONTINUING TO TELL THEIR FATHER’S STORIES AND HOPES. HISTORY DOES NOT REPEAT ITSELF. 80 YEARS AGO, BUT IS STILL VERY, VERY NEAR IN THE MEMORY OF LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE. AND YOM HASHOAH WILL CONTINUE UNTIL TOMORROW EVENING AT SUNSET. LI