91-year-old Holocaust survivor dies in basement during Russian attacks on Mariupol Vanda previously hid in a basement from Mariupol's Nazi occupation as a child. A 91-year-old Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust has died in Mariupol . Thousands of people are currently trapped in the Ukrainian city as Russian forces have attacked and cut off essential supplies. Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova had taken shelter in a freezing basement without water during the Russian siege. Her daughter Larissa, who had been with her in the basement, told Chabad.org that she watched helplessly as her ill mother faded away. "Mama didn't deserve such...