Holocaust survivor's daughter to speak at Cascadia Presentation concurrent with 'Luminous Journey' Last updated 6/12/2022 at 6:07pm On June 27, 1944, cousins and best friends Vera Frank and Maria Frank of Hungary were loaded onto cattle cars and taken to the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp, where they remained for six weeks before being sent to Buchenwald, another concentration camp, as slave labor. They were liberated from the camp March 28, 1945, by American troops. Both women came to live in Seattle and attended the University of Washington, where they both married and built lives in Washington. Vera Frank Federman and...