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Forced to flee the Nazis as a baby, this Ukrainian Holocaust survivor is running from her home again
CNN ^ | Updated 7:26 AM ET, Mon April 4, 2022 | Salma Abdelaziz, Sarah Dean and Dan Hodge

Posted on 04/04/2022 3:18:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

She finished her university education and became an engineer, got married and had a son. Later she divorced and remarried in her 40s to Valerii Verbitski, whom she described as a "good man."

Her life was simple and peaceful.

That peace lasted until February 24, when Russian forces launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine, barreling through her city, shelling neighborhoods, blowing up a government building, and encircling Kharkiv's estimated 1.4 million residents.

"There was no water or power, we couldn't buy food. It became impossible to live," she said, "The air raid sirens never stopped, there was explosion after explosion. A real war."

Weeks of indiscriminate shelling by Russian forces have terrorized the residents of Kharkiv. Tens of thousands have now fled Ukraine's second-largest city in moments when rare and unreliable evacuation corridors are agreed.

At first, Margaryta chose to stay and care for her now-frail and sick husband, while leaning on a generous neighbor for support. But the fighting grew closer and closer to their home.

"An explosion blew out all our windows. After that shock, Valerii grew weaker. It was like his legs were cut out from under him."

The siege and relentless bombardment took its toll: Margaryta awoke on the morning of March 20 to find her husband had passed away in his sleep.

"We couldn't bury him because of the fighting. His body is still in the morgue."

Not even a memorial that honors Kharkiv's Holocaust victims was spared from Putin's so-called denazification campaign. The menorah-shaped monument was pockmarked by shelling, two of its branches twisted and blown off.

A nearby plaque reads: "In December 1941 - January 1942 Nazis annihilated the Kharkov Jewish Ghetto in Drobitsky Yar - more than 16 thousands people - the aged, women, children - only because they were Jews."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: biden; chechens; chechnya; einsatzgruppen; holocaust; israel; jews; putin; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; russianpigs; ukeeinsatzgruppen; ukraine; ukronazis; vladtheimploder; zottherussiantrolls
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Ukrainian Holocaust survivor narrowly escapes being denazified. Some of her civilian compatriots in government positions weren't as lucky, ending up in mass graves denazification compounds below ground.
1 posted on 04/04/2022 3:18:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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“Ukrainian Holocaust survivor narrowly escapes being denazified. Some of her civilian compatriots in government positions weren’t as lucky, ending up in mass graves denazification compounds below ground.”

Nice irony.


2 posted on 04/04/2022 3:21:49 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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Russian forces launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine

All lies and more lies.
3 posted on 04/04/2022 3:23:01 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: JoSixChip

CNN needs three people to write these articles.


4 posted on 04/04/2022 3:25:10 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: JoSixChip
All lies and more lies.

Videos and pictures of the destruction in the Ukraine were obviously created on a Hollywood screen set.

Good catch Jo

5 posted on 04/04/2022 3:25:32 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: JoSixChip
All lies and more lies.

Care to give a calm explanation?

6 posted on 04/04/2022 3:27:28 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Videos and pictures of the destruction in the Ukraine were obviously created on a Hollywood screen set.

No, they don't have a hollywood set. They just ad-lib, which is why the quality has been so bad. Of course the media could care less if it was staged or actually attributable to the Ukrainians, they have a narrative to sell. One that you are all to eager to swallow.
7 posted on 04/04/2022 3:29:31 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: libertylover

Hey, your shift is over! Getting carried away with work or need to get a bonus?


8 posted on 04/04/2022 3:31:10 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: libertylover
Care to give a calm explanation?

I'm sure it has been explained to you more then a dozen times. But you can't see past the narrative the media has been spewing in you. I'll not waste my time trying to educate weak minded fools.
9 posted on 04/04/2022 3:32:45 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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We have actual film of Ukrainian Azov Nazis shooting Russian POWs and laugning as the POWs bleed and die. "Green Screen Zelenky" even had to condemn his Azov Nazis, even though American MSM censored his comments out.

Why no videos here? The Russians left 4 days before the new photos. Follow the story. Don't be stampeded again like Iraq WMD, Serbia, Libya, Syria, etc.


10 posted on 04/04/2022 3:33:33 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: JoSixChip

I didn’t think so.


11 posted on 04/04/2022 3:33:46 PM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: JoSixChip

12 posted on 04/04/2022 3:35:10 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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No, they don't have a hollywood set.

Come on Jo, you know they do. How else are those fake videos and photos produced if they are fake and have never taken place?

Stop confusing us.......

13 posted on 04/04/2022 3:36:56 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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“All lies and more lies.”

I missed where Ukraine had attacked and bombed Russia. Perhaps you can enlighten us all as to how this war is somehow defending a country that wasn’t attacked?


14 posted on 04/04/2022 3:38:28 PM PDT by MercyFlush (I don't follow the science. I follow the money. )
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To: Travis McGee

You are wasting your time on these weak minded fools. They will ask the same question over and over just as posters on this thread are after you already posted what is going on.


15 posted on 04/04/2022 3:39:58 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: Zhang Fei

why doesn’t Zuckerberg take care of them? I guess he’s too busy rigging elections here to bother with them.


16 posted on 04/04/2022 3:52:07 PM PDT by euram
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Joe, don't get me wrong my brother, but if those videos and photos are fake, where are they coming from?

You claim Hollywood has nothing to do with them and I tend to believe you even tho you seem to be contradicting yourself.

So, are these photos and videos taken from past Hollywood movies? If not, where are they coming from if they're not real???????????

17 posted on 04/04/2022 3:52:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Zhang Fei

https://babylonbee.com/news/with-babylon-bee-off-twitter-users-forced-to-get-fake-news-from-cnn


18 posted on 04/04/2022 3:53:12 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Hot Tabasco

Your answers are in post 9 of this thread.


19 posted on 04/04/2022 3:56:14 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: Zhang Fei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lviv_pogroms_(1941)

Tell her to stay out of Lviv. That place conducted it’s own holocaust and murdered their Jews the day after the Nazi army arrived in WWII.

Also tell her to avoid Azov, especially the ones that have SS tattoos and runes on their helmets.


20 posted on 04/04/2022 4:05:27 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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