A 91-year-old Jewish woman who survived Hitler and the Nazis has died during the Russian siege of Mariupol
A 91-year-old Jewish woman who survived Hitler and the Nazis has died duringVanda Semyonovna Obiedkova, 91, passed away on April 4 while sheltering from Vladimir Putin’s bombs in the Ukrainian city.
For weeks, her daughter Larissa had watched helplessly as her ill mother faded away in the basement the two were hiding in without any water or heating., hours after arriving in a safe location with the rest of her family. ‘There was no water, no electricity, no heat – and it was unbearably cold. There was nothing we could do for her.When Russian forces entered the city in March, the family hid in the basement of a neighbouring heating-supply store.Little Vanda pictured with her parents before the Nazi occupation Two snipers soon began guarding near the closest water sources, so they could not get water for days.
After her mum died, Larissa and her husband risked their lives to bury her in a public park less than half a mile from the Azov Sea.
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