The only reason Yuri Parfenov was not murdered in the 1941 massacre of Odesau2019s Jewish population is because a family hid him and his brother in a toilet pit when the soldiers came for them.The son of a Jewish mother and a Russian father, Mr Parfenov says that day he was due to be taken to the neighbouring region of Mykolaiv and shot.In total, fourteen members of his family - including his mother -u00a0 were killed during the Holocaust in Ukraine. In the Black Sea port city of Odesa, tens of thousand of Jewish residents were shot, burned alive and...
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