A 100-year-old Holocaust survivor on Long Island was honored Monday for her birthday ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sen. Charles Schumer bestowed Pina Frassineti Wax with a U.S. Capitol flag flown in her honor and announced that she will also receive special U.S. Senate Floor recognition commemorating her living legend status on Long Island.

Wax was born in Italy but she has called Long Island home for decades. She has dedicated her life to teaching, loving and learning after surviving the horrors of the Holocaust. The great-grandmother from Baldwin said she still remembers when the Nazis took her grandfather and other Jews to concentration camps.