My great-aunt, Olia Shkurovich, the daughter of my grandmother’s sister Leya. They were a religious family, and Olia was one of eight children. Olia was deaf and mute. When the rest of her family went into evacuation during the war, Olia refused to go. She stayed in Kyiv and was murdered at Babyn Yar.
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