Holocaust survivor freezes to death in Kyiv as Russia's missile strikes knock out power

Photo taken 27 January 2026. President of Ukraine honors the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Photo: president.gov.ua

Yevgenia Besfamilnaya survived the Nazis. She did not survive Russia's war.

Russia's relentless assault on Kyiv's energy grid has killed yet another Ukrainian Holocaust survivor.

On 13 January, plumbers found Yevgenia Mikhailovna Besfamilnaya—"Baba Zhenya" to her neighbors—frozen solid in her Podil apartment. Russian missiles had knocked out power and heat across the capital. Outside, temperatures had plunged to -18°C. Meanwhile, her balcony door stood open. The police didn't walk around the apartment. Instead, they drove on the ice.

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