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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Midland, PA) According to a release from PA Cyber in Midland, PA Cyber is celebrating the announcement of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy® Award for “Moments in History: Melvin Goldman” in the Education/Schools – Long Form Content category. PA Cyber’sMoments in History series earned three Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy® Award nominations in a row and PA Cyber’sMoments in History series gets its first Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy® Award. The film shows the journey of Holocaust survivor Melvin Goldman as his daughter, Lee Goldman Kikel, uses cassette tapes he left behind to tell his story. PA Cyber hosted a video premiere of “Moments in History: Melvin Goldman” on January 27th, 2025, which was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which included a Q&A with Lee Goldman Kikel. On June 4th, 2025, which was Holocaust Survivor Day, Chatham University in Pittsburgh hosted a screening of  “Moments in History: Melvin Goldman.” The film shows Goldman and his real experience of spending five years in the Jewish ghetto and concentration camps. When Allied Forces liberated the concentration camps in 1945, Goldman was twenty-one-years old. Goldman even could not walk and weighed 85 pounds at that time. A stranger helped Goldman sponsor his movement to the United States after he had recovery for several years in Germany. Goldman owned a jewelry store that was popular in Squirrel Hill, which is part of Pittsburgh and raised a family in the United States. The Emmy® Award is recognized through excellence in television through The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Every year, nineteen Emmy® regional ceremonies are held around the United States. The regional Emmy® winners for 2025 were announced on Saturday, following nominations in August of 2025. The recipients of these awards and the complete list of them is available on the website of the Mid-Atlantic Emmy® Awards which you can view by clicking here.