A Holocaust survivor who escaped Nazi capture by hiding underground died in an “unbearably cold” basement in Mariupol amid Russian bombings, reports said.

Photo by Wanda Semenovna Obiedkova.Chabad.org

• Holocaust survivor Vanda Semenovna Obiedkova, 91, died on April 4, according to Jewish News.

• Her daughter said she spent weeks in an “unbearably cold” basement while Russia bombed Mariupol.

• As a child, Obiedkova also hid in a basement during the Nazi conquest of Ukraine in 1941.

A Ukrainian Holocaust survivor has died in Mariupol after spending several weeks underground in an “unbearably cold” basement, according to Jewish News.

91-year-old Wanda Semenovna Obiedkova hid under a heating shop with her family while Russia ruthlessly bombed her city, Jewish News reports.

She lived without heating, electricity and running water, the newspaper writes. “It was unbearably cold,” her daughter Larissa told Chabad.org, the Habad-Lubavitch Hasidic news website.

Semenovna Obiedkova was bedridden due to illness, according to Jewish News, and eventually succumbed to her illness on April 4th.

“Mom didn’t deserve to die like that,” Larissa was quoted as saying by Chabad.org.

The family buried Semyonovna Obiedkova in a local park before fleeing to a safe place away from the constant bombings, Chabad.org reported.

According to Larissa, her Holocaust survivor mother has repeatedly asked her family, “Why is this happening?”

A building damaged during the battle is seen in Mariupol, Ukraine, on April 13, 2022. Alexey Alexandrov / AP Photo

More than 21,000 people have been killed so far in Mariupol, Insider reported. Improvised graves fill the streets, the report said.

As the bombs exploded on the family, Larissa said her Holocaust-surviving mother had spent her last days comparing her ordeal to what she experienced during the Nazi occupation of Mariupol in 1941.

Wanda Semenovna Obiedkova, as a child, with her parents. Chabad.org

“Every time a bomb fell, the whole building shook,” she said. “My mother kept telling me that she didn’t remember anything like that during World War II.”

This was not the first time that Semenovna Obiedkova took shelter underground.

She escaped arrest during the Nazi occupation by hiding in a basement in 1941. Her mother was captured and is among approximately 16,000 Jews executed on the outskirts of Mariupol, Chabad.org reported.

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