Her family hid a Jewish child during the Holocaust. They reunited over 80 years later

It was a reunion more than 75 years in the making, and Washingtonians got to listen to their stories and memories of the Holocaust at an event on Sunday evening.

TUKWILA, Wash. — Exactly 79 years ago, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp was liberated, where about 1.1 million Jewish people were murdered during World War II. It’s why this weekend, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed around the world, including locally.

At the Museum of Flight Sunday night, a sold-out event hosted by Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity became the backdrop for a reunion of two Holocaust survivors: Maud Dahme and Ingrid Steppic, both in their 80s.

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