When Nazi soldiers snatched 13-year-old Moniek Ebner off the street in his hometown of Nowy Wisnicz, Poland, he didn’t know he would never see anyone in his family alive again.

His parents, grandfathers, three brothers, seven uncles, six aunts and many cousins were Holocaust victims.

“I survived because God wanted me to bear witness to one of the darkest days of mankind,” Ebner said.

Ebner, 85, and others from a shrinking group of 243 central Ohio Holocaust survivors — along with a handful of Ohio veterans who helped liberate death camps — are to bear witness to the dedication of the $2 million Holocaust and Liberators Memorial at noon Monday at the Statehouse. The ceremony will be held in the Ohio Theatre across the street from the memorial, which was created by Polish-born artist-architect Daniel Libeskind.

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