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Committed to collecting evidence of the Holocaust's atrocities, survivor Mel Mermelstein died Jan. 28 at age 95. Now, his artifacts have found a home at Newport Beach’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life.

Mel Mermelstein died Jan. 28 at age 95. His collection will go to Newport Beach’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life.

Mermelstein weighed 68 pounds when he was liberated by the allied powers. He was able to endure because of the promise he made to his father in Auschwitz: to carry on the memory of and educate the world about the holocaust.

LOS ANGELES — All of 17, Mel Mermelstein wasn’t sure of his fate when he was forced to board a train bound for Auschwitz.

Mel Mermelstein was deported from Hungary in 1944 along with his parents, two sisters and a brother to the Nazis most prolific death camp in German-occupied Poland when he was just 17.

He accused a revisionist history group of reneging on its promise to give a reward to anyone who could prove that the Nazis gassed Jews. He won his case.

Mel Mermelstein lost his entire family in the Nazi death camps and vowed never to forget. He opened a museum and the Auschwitz Study Foundation.