Stephan B. Ross

Steve Ross’ childhood was marked with extreme hunger. By age 14 he weighed only 50 pounds and had cycled through 10 concentration camps during the Holocaust. When he took a potato, he was beaten with a lead pipe.

But when his camp was finally liberated, he was touched with kindness.

“After I was rescued from hell in the valley of death I came upon a soldier in a tank who showed me compassion and concern and took me back to God and to civilization and mankind,” said Ross in the documentary “Etched in Glass,” about his life.

That moment was a changing point for Ross.

Ross, a social justice advocate and leader in the formation of the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, searched for that soldier for the rest of his life.

The new documentary “Etched in Glass,” chronicles his life and work, starting with his painful childhood in Poland to his work with at-risk youth in Boston and eventually his work for the Holocaust Memorial. It also takes viewers on a journey to finding the soldier who helped him so many years ago.