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Maja Hill, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, died Sept. 14, at 82.

Though culturally Jewish, Hill converted to Christianity and was deeply involved with Black church congregations in Columbia.

Friends remember her as an intercessor who used prayer and her own experiences with trauma to help others.

When Maja Hill, pronounced as Maya, was growing up, her parents did not talk a lot about their experiences as survivors of the Holocaust.

Their trauma did seep into Hill, though, who was born July 8, 1943, as Maria Adyna Eisenstaedt in Basel, Switzerland. Her family moved to the U.S. in 1947 and she would eventually settle in Columbia in 1985.

Hill's story previously was told by the Tribune in 2009 .

Her work in the Columbia community eventually would take on a a

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