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KewlKat

(5,652 posts)
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 07:32 PM Apr 2022

(Jewish Group) 91 yr old Holocaust Survivor Perishes in Mariupol Basement

https://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/5495941/jewish/91-year-old-Holocaust-Survivor-Perishes-in-Mariupol-Basement.htm#utm_medium=email&utm_source=14_jewish_news_en&utm_campaign=en&utm_content=content



Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that swalled 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.

She had watched helplessly as her mother’s life ebbed away, remaining at her side until the last moment. After her mother passed away, Larissa and her husband risked their lives to bury Obiedkova, amid non-stop shelling, in a public park less than a kilometer from the Azov Sea.

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(Jewish Group) 91 yr old Holocaust Survivor Perishes in Mariupol Basement (Original Post) KewlKat Apr 2022 OP
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Heartbreaking and incredibly sickening! Wuddles440 Apr 2022 #2
At this point I_UndergroundPanther Apr 2022 #3

Wuddles440

(1,414 posts)
2. Heartbreaking and incredibly sickening!
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 07:54 PM
Apr 2022

I pray that her soul torments Putin every single moment of his remaining, wretched existence on this earth. Hopefully then she'll be able to find peace.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,936 posts)
3. At this point
Tue Apr 19, 2022, 08:01 PM
Apr 2022

I dont care if russia as a country is gone.

I dont mean the average brainwashed,sheep citizens here. There is hope they can change.
I want honor to every russian
speaking out against putin remembered.

I want the power structure gone. The sickening beliefs so much like nazi.gone,erased. Russia should be made part of Ukraine . Russia be given another name and putin captured executed along with the rest of those fuckers and ogliarchs. Public executions so we know they are really dead. Let thier bodies be beaten until Ukrainian anger is released upon the tyrant that destroyed thier lives.
So they can put themselves back together.


Let every putin sympathizer,every right wing piece of shit putin sympathizer in this country be cast out.. Shut down the russian and right wing infotainment channels. Wake these bigot fools from their addictive haze of delusion.

Shut down the churches that support tyranny and return the money to the parishoners that had given it to pigs and were lied to..

Cast out the trump appointed and idealogical right wing monsters in robes.

This shit has to stop. I dont want to go back to the rule of kings and suffering of slaves .

Destroy conservatism for if taken to its logical end it will lead us into tyranny.
Get rid of capitalism and give greed no power to control others lives what they think ,feel and want.


I do not want this awful future the gop wants.

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