Daniel Lubetzky, CEO of KIND LLC, accepts the Civility and Compassion Award during The Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards Nov. 04, 2023. Photo: USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters Connect

Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND Snacks and an investor on the ABC series “Shark Tank,” posted on social media an archival video clip of his father discussing his experience as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday.

The entrepreneur’s late father, Roman Lubetzky, along with Daniel’s uncle and grandmother survived the Dachau concentration camp in Germany when it was liberated by soldiers in the US Army. Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.

Daniel posted on Instagram a snippet of a two-hour interview in which his father recounted his experiences in Dachau. The Jewish Mexican-American entrepreneur said the clip should “remind us of our duty to prevent something like this from ever happening again.”

“Let’s commit to learning lessons from the past so that the worst parts of history don’t repeat themselves — and so that we may all build a better future together,” Daniel added in the post.

In the video that Daniel shared, which is also available for viewing on YouTube, Roman first talked about how Nazis tried to dehumanize Jews in the streets of Europe during the Holocaust. For example, he said Jews could not walk on the sidewalks and were forced to bow in front of German Nazi soldiers and later go down on their knees in front of German troops.

In 1944, Rom`n and his family were sent in cattle cars to the Dachau concentration camp. In the video clip, Roman detailed inhuman conditions that Jews experienced in the cattle cars and later in the Nazi camp. “People were dying and starving like flies,” he said in part. “They had very effective ways of killing you by the way they fed you, hit you, and the way they treated you. People were dying in very large amounts. Surrounding that was constant harassment and constant, constant moments of fear.”

 

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When it was first announced in September 2024 that Daniel would join the “Shark Tank” team as an investor, he said he hoped his Jewish Mexican mother Sonia was “proud” of him and that his father “is looking from above and seeing not just what I’ve achieved but how I’ve achieved it — by trying my very best to always follow the values he taught me.”