The 91-year-old’s story was told by Dovid Margolin on Chabad.org. Vanda’s daughter and her husband
They risked their lives to bury the woman
in a public park less than a kilometer from the Sea of Azov. Obiedkova and her family were active members of the Mariupol Jewish community.
Vanda Semyonovna Obledkova was born on December 8, 1930 in Mariupol. Eleven years later she was rescued
Nazi raid that killed 16,000 people
and that tore her away forever
mother
, arrested by the Germans. That
Father
, who was not Jewish, managed to hide his young daughter in a hospital for the duration of the occupation. follow some
family friends
They saved her life by leading the Nazis to believe that she was a Greek national.
“He experienced unimaginable horrors”
said Rabbi Mendel Cohen, director of the Ukrainian city’s Chabad-Lubavitch. She married in 1954 and lived the last years of her life with her daughter Larissa. “Mom loved Mariupol and never wanted to leave her,” said the woman.