Real Name: Unrevealed
Case: Lost Friend/Savior
Date: 1945
Location: Dachau, Germany

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Details: In 1939, Stephan Ross was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. Stephan and his brother were the only ones of their family who survived, and in 1945, they were freed along with all of the other prisoners at Dachau thanks to allied troops. As Stephan was walking along a road, an American soldier by the name of Steve Sattler gave him his food and an American flag to remember him by. Stephan was emotional and deeply moved by this, and it helped give him the strength to survive and continue with life. He and his brother later moved to the United States, and Stephan, who lives in Boston, now helps troubled teens. He hoped over forty years later that he will be reunited with the American soldier. On Aug.26, 2012, Stephan Ross received a call from the grandaughter of his American hero, Sadly to report that Steve Sattler died on Dec.7th 1986. 81 year old Stephan Ross, even though disapointed that his unknow friend had passed was excited at the prospect of finally finding word of the soldier after sixty-seven years.
On November 11, 2012, Stephen Ross was united with descendents of Lt Steve Satler at a Veterans Day ceremony in the Massachusetts State House.

Extra Notes: The case was featured as a part of the November 29, 1989 episode.
Results: Solved
Links:

• Massachusetts Honors Military Veterans in Emotional Ceremony