Margery Hop Wong last saw her older brother Sgt. Yuen Hop in 1943. He was a soldier missing in action, until researchers solved the mystery behind his death.
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitlerβs 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot and an aeronautics instructor.
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.
After years of being barred from a segregated military, she became the first Black nurse in the regular U.S. armed forces. She was later an Air Force officer.
The home of the death campβs wartime commandant, Rudolf HΓΆss, which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie βThe Zone of Interest,β will soon welcome visitors.