Yes, that's my father.

Sol Finkelstein had no idea what happened to his father.

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

Sol's family contacted The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in hopes of finding more information about his father. What happened next was one of those extraordinary series of events that will remain with his family forever—and Sol graciously allowed the Museum to capture it on film.

For more than six decades, Sol didn't know his father's fate - and he wrestled with guilt, worrying if he could have saved him.

Sol's son, Joseph, contacted USHMM, and their staff discovered the date and place of Sol's father's death. It turned out that, unlike most Holocaust victims, Sol's father had received a proper burial. Thanks to the Museum, Sol's family was able to visit his father's grave in Austria.

But the story doesn't end there. After learning that Sol had no photos of his father, the Museum 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. "Yes, that's my father," he whispered.

The Finkelstein family is just one of thousands who contact the Museum every year looking for information about what happened to their loved ones during the Holocaust. The World Memory Project, a partnership with Ancestry.com, will help make this kind of information more searchable for survivors and their families.

These efforts create the chance for family connections that transcend place and time. And the impact, as it was for the Finkelsteins, is often life-changing.

http://act.ushmm.org/Sol