Tag #150994 - Interview #78412 (Frieda Portnaya)

During the Great Patriotic War her daughters were in the evacuation, but Rivka didn’t go with them. She was killed at Babi Yar1 near Kiev along with thousands of other Jews. The way they put it at that time was that she “left for Babi Yar”. My mother’s stepbrother Pinia Mandemberg and his wife and son Yakov also perished at Babi Yar.