A Holocaust survivor died while sheltering from Russian bombings in Mariupol. As the age of 10 in the same city, Vanda Obiedkova hid from Nazis in a basement. Her daughter said she asked ‘why is this happening?’ as she lay dying in the cold. Aged 10, Vanda Obiedkova survived Hitler’s Nazis, who were invading Ukraine, by hiding in a basement in Mariupol, though her mother was taken away and executed.Exactly 81 years later, she died in a basement in the same city, once again hiding from an invading force – Vladimir Putin’s Russian army. As she lay dying, in the freezing cold, and pleading for water, the Holocaust survivor asked her daughter: ‘Why is this happening?’ Reports say that she was forced to live underground for the last two weeks of her life, as she was ‘ill’, ’emaciated’ and unable to stand up. Vanda died frightened and confused from the Russian onslaught in the city she loved. Her family had to risk their lives to bury her, due to the relentless Russian bombing. (…) In 1998, she recorded her memories of surviving the Holocaust with the USC Shoah Foundation in 1998.
siehe auch: Holocaust-Überlebende in Mariupol gestorben. In der schwer umkämpften südostukrainischen Hafenstadt Mariupol ist nach Angaben der jüdischen Gemeinde eine 91-jährige Überlebende des Holocaust gestorben. „Mit zehn Jahren überlebte Wanda Semjonowa Objedkowa die Deutschen, indem sie sich in einem Keller in Mariupol versteckte. 81 Jahre später starb sie in einem Keller in der gleichen Stadt, als sie sich infolge des fürchterlichen Kriegs vor den Russen versteckte“, teilte das Auschwitz Museum heute auf seinem Twitter-Kanal mit; 91-year-old Holocaust Survivor Perishes in Mariupol Basement. Eighty years after evading Nazis, Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died in war. Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that swallowed her mother and family. Obiedkova, an active member of Mariupol’s Jewish community, died in a freezing basement in Mariupol on April 4.
As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?” Ill and emaciated during the last two weeks of her life, the 91-year-old could not even stand up. She died on April 4, not peacefully of old age in her own bed, but as a victim of the horrific 21st-century war that has engulfed her hometown. “Mama didn’t deserve such a death,” says Obiedkova’s daughter, Larissa, through tears, just hours after arriving with her family in a safe location.