A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor has died in a basement in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol. The Auschwitz Memorial announced the death of Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova. The Jewish organization Chabad.org reported that her daughter shared the news after arriving with the rest of her family at a safe location, saying she died April 4, "pleading for water" in a freezing basement. Her daughter Larissa told the organization her mother only wanted to know one thing: "Why is this happening?" Obiedkova was 10 years old when the Nazis occupied Mariupol and killed thousands of Jews in a single day, including her...
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