Roman, a survivor of the Holocaust in Ukraine, in tears worries his grandchildren and the younger generations will suffer the trauma he did (Bel Trew) 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...