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“Life Must Go On”: A Daughter Tells Her Father’s Holocaust Story

Children liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 - Sol Lurie shown in circle.
The Lurie Family
Children liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 - Sol Lurie shown in circle.

Sol Lurie was born in Lithuania.

As a child, he survived six concentration camps during the Holocaust in World War II.
His tale is told in the book “Life Must Go On: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews” - published by Simon & Schuster.

The book was written by his daughter Bea, who lives here in Chattanooga - and Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs, a professor in religious studies at the University of Alabama.

For this episode of “Scenic Roots,” here is our conversation with Bea.

Bea Lurie
Preserve Chattanooga
Bea Lurie
Cover of “Life Must Go On.”
Simon & Schuster

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Ray is the host and producer of "Scenic Roots" - Mondays through Thursdays at 3 PM - and WUTC's Editorial Director.