For the late Ralph Ettelson, “the past was the past” – even when he returned to his hometown in Lithuania, where his family and fellow Jewish citizens were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. However, Ettelson’s great-granddaughter, Northeastern University student Melina Coy, disagreed with her great grandfather. “I would love to challenge that,” Coy said. “I think the past does make a huge difference, and that is why his great-granddaughter is still studying his history and learning what he went through.”
Research into her great-grandfather’s past reveals what he left behind during the Holocaust
