An 83-year-old Philadelphia woman who survived through the holocaust is to meet her brother, whom she hasn’t seen in 66 years.

Irene Famulak was 17 when the Nazis invaded her family’s home in Ukraine in 1972. During the rest of the war, Famulak lived in a concentration camp in Germany and never saw any of her six brothers and sisters again. The last time she saw her siblings was also the last time she saw her parents. Her last memory about those times is her younger brother, Sevelud, pulling on her dress and begging her not to go.

After the war ended, she moved to Philadelphia. Even though she started a new family, she could never forget the family she had left behind long ago.

Then, eight years ago, her brother Sevelud contacted the Red Cross Holocaust Tracing Center in Germany, searching for Famulak.  The Red Cross located her and let her know her brother had turned up in Germany to trace his sister.

Famulak’s family is now preparing a beautiful and much anticipated reunion.

Famulak said she would probably hug her brother, kiss him and cry.

So far, Famulak has not known what had happened to her parents, who were sent to Siberia, but she hopes to find out something from her brother.