#BabaZhenya aka Yevhenia Besfamilnaya. Meaning nameless. So named by the orphanage where she was raised: she had survived the #Holocaust alone
She spoke only Yiddish and Russian. She was cranky and asocial. Neighbors looked out for her
Murdered by #Putin
A shattered life bookended by horrors
A neighbor remembered the last time he saw her:
"The look on her face was special in some way. Like she was saying: ‘OK, that’s it. You can stay here, but I’m going’"
No one knows exactly when Baba Zhenya died. They only know that she froze to death. A Kyiv native who managed to survive the Holocaust, Baba Zhenya, or rather Yevhenia Mykhailivna Besfamilnaya, finally succumbed to the freezing weather that Kyivans have been forced to endure in recent weeks.
German Lawyer, Member of #EuropeanParliament #MEP #EP
Speaking on #BabaZhenya
She survived the #Holocaust
She froze to death last month, age 84
Inside her apartment in #Kyiv
Due to #Putin #bombing #Ukraine's #infrastructure
#UkraineWar #Europe #EU #Deutschland #Germany #Russia #genocide
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