Gloria Hakken of Waikanae tells Kathryn the remarkable story of her parents-in-law who were members of the Dutch resistance and who hid a Jewish toddler, Elli, in their house in Amsterdam for two years from 1941.
After the war, they moved to New Zealand with their three sons but never knew what happened to Elli.
A few years ago Gloria, went on a mission to find the lost girl, who had moved to Brazil, and managed to reunite her with the Hakken family in New Zealand.
Gloria and her family will be at an event will be held at parliament this afternoon to mark United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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