The only reason Yuri Parfenov was not murdered in the 1941 massacre of Odesa’s 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 – were killed during the Holocaust in Ukraine . In the Black Sea port city of Odesa, tens of thousand of Jewish residents were shot,...
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