War survivor finds brother 60 years later

Sunday, October 6, 2002

PHILADELPHIA -- On July 23, 1942, Nazis forced 24-year-old Maria Maksymiuk Harkuscha from her home in a small Ukrainian village, sending her on a trek through labor and refugee camps before her escape to America a decade later.

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