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Wednesday 14 June 2017
Film spotlights Holocaust

survivor’s search for U.S. soldier

PHILIP MARCELO acy of Steve Ross” focuses to talk about their experi-
Associated Press on the five years Ross spent ence,” Lyons said. “Steve
BOSTON (AP) — It was a in concentration camps to was the opposite. He was
simple act of kindness by his life as a war orphan in an open faucet.”
a complete stranger, but America, his career help- As the documentary de-
it left a lasting impression ing at-risk youths in Boston tails, Ross’ search for the
on a young Polish boy es- and his successful efforts to soldier was featured on
caping the horrors of Nazi erect the striking glass New the popular television show
In this Wednesday, June 7, 2017 photo, Holocaust survivors Is- death camps. England Holocaust Memo- “Unsolved Mysteries” in
rael Arbeiter, left, and Steve Ross, right, greet one another at Steve Ross searched for rial in downtown Boston. 1989. But it wasn’t until de-
a theater before the premier of the film “Etched in Glass: The decades for the U.S. soldier Ross, now 90 and his cades later that the fam-
Legacy of Steve Ross,” in West Newton, Mass. who had comforted and speech limited by a stroke, ily of Lt. Steve Sattler, who
Associated Press fed him as the Dachau attended Wednesday’s died in 1986, connected
concentration camp was screening with his family, the dots.
being liberated by Al- the filmmakers and mem- The film captures the emo-
lied forces in 1945. As Ross bers of the soldier’s family. tional moment when the
carved out a new life in “It’s not your typical Ho- two families met at a Vet-
America, he retold the sto- locaust film,” said Roger erans Day ceremony at the
ry countless times, carrying Lyons, the director of the Massachusetts State House
with him the American flag nearly hourlong film. “Steve in 2012. Sattler’s grand-
handkerchief the soldier is a unique person. He took daughter, Brenda Sattler,
left him. his second life and he really who played a key role in
“My father was absolutely ran with it.”After serving in making the connection,
transformed by that small the U.S. Army during the says the bond forged be-
act,” said Michael Ross, a Korean War, Ross became tween the two families has
former Boston City Coun- a social worker helping been surreal.
cil president and one- youths in some of Boston’s “The biggest impact to me
time mayoral candidate. toughest housing projects. is being proud of grandpa
“It helped him regain his In his later years, he would for being that soldier,” said
faith in humanity. It shows talk to high school students Sattler, who flew in from An-
that these things we do in about his Holocaust experi- chorage, Alaska, to attend
life have profound con- ence and address swear- Wednesday’s screening.
sequences. That how we ing in-ceremonies for new “It’s a lesson to just be kind,”
treat each other matters.” U.S. citizens. Dressed in added Sattler’s daughter,
Ross’ search for the be- garb similar to what pris- Gwen Sattler Allanson, who
nevolent soldier and his life oners wore in the death traveled from San Diego,
after the war is recounted camps, he would faithfully California. “You have no
in a new documentary recount the story of the idea what people are go-
screened in the Boston kind soldier and carefully ing through. Take a mo-
suburb of West Newton on unfurl the American flag ment and reach out and
Wednesday evening. handkerchief. maybe you can turn that
“Etched in Glass: The Leg- “Most survivors don’t want person’s world around.”q
Mixed reaction to Sony’s clean

edits of ‘Ghostbusters,’ more

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Imagine watching “Step
Brothers” with the whole
family. You might be
able to now.
Sony Pictures on Tues-
day unveiled their Clean
Version initiative, which
makes available the less
violent, salacious and
profane broadcast tele-
vision and airplane edits
of certain movies when
you purchase the regu-
lar title on a streaming
service.
Clean versions are avail-
able now for 24 films in-
In this Aug. 2, 2016 file photo, Seth Rogen, co-writer and co- cluding “Step Brothers,”
producer of “Sausage Party,” poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, ‘’Ghostbusters” and
Calif.
Associated Press. “White House Down.”q