On the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, state Assemblyman Tony D’Urso (D-Long Island) will travel to a small synagogue in Naples, Italy, to be reunited with the descendants of a Jewish family that he helped hide from the Nazis as a little boy.

In 1944, the D’Urso family protected a large Jewish family from the Nazis in their hometown of Formia, Italy. While he was only a small boy, the future assemblyman was responsible for acting as a “lookout” and calling out to his mother when German soldiers were approaching.