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Vanda Vasil’eva (later Vanda Semyonovna Ob’edkova) with her parents, Maria and Semen, in Mariupol in 1938. USC Shoah Foundation
One year after the unprovoked attack against the Ukrainian people, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) will present a special Stay Connected Live program that will feature a discussion of the devastating impact on Ukraine's Holocaust survivors.
The program will air on Friday, February 24 at 9:30 a.m. ET on the Museum's Facebook page.
As the Nazis rounded up and killed thousands of Jews in Mariupol during the Holocaust, Vanda Vasil’eva was just a child who survived by hiding until liberation.
Last year, Vanda died at 91, cowering in a basement in Mariupol, hiding from Russia’s deadly siege. Join us one year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to discuss its devastating impact on Ukraine’s Holocaust survivors.
The USHMM also published a new essay marking the anniversary of the war, Putin and a Tale of Two Photos by Edna Friedberg.
Additional valuable background on the topic of the Holocaust in Ukraine was shared recently in this post by 
Mary Johnson
and 
Keith Patterson
.
If you are not able to watch the USHMM program live, an archived recording will be available to watch on the Museum’s Facebook and YouTube pages
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A recording of this important program is now available.
Thank you for sharing this important information. I realized this fact of double victimization as soon as I heard that the war had begun. Did you know that Israel has accepted many of those specific refugees and Magen David Adom has native speakers in its system to assist them, if necessary?
Thank you for the important reminder, 
Blythe Hinitz
, that some Ukrainian Holocaust survivors have found refuge in Israel and Germany. In addition, as reported in this NY Times article, Germany agreed to a large financial reparations package for the world’s remaining Jewish Holocaust survivors including a $12 million emergency fund for 8,500 survivors who remained in war-torn Ukraine.
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