Sunday's emotional encounter was the first time Dina had met the offspring of the Mordechai family she helped save during the Holocaust.
Once a regular ritual at Israel's Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial, such gatherings are rapidly dwindling due to the advanced ages of both survivors and rescuers and may not happen again.
"The risk they took upon themselves to take in an entire family knowing that it put them and everyone around them in danger," said Sarah Yanai, today 86, who was the oldest of the five siblings Dina and others sheltered.