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Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum.
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his native Lithuania. He and his family later escaped Soviet persecution. A number of years ago, Jay started the Virginia Holocaust Museum, because only through education will genocide come to an end. Read the full description.
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Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his native Lithuania. He and his family later escaped Soviet persecution. A number of years ago, Jay started the Virginia Holocaust Museum, because only through education will genocide come to an end.
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