Mayya Gil, who survived the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster, and the COVID-19 pandemic, was killed by a driver while crossing the street in Brooklyn. The 54-year-old home health aide accompanying Gil was hospitalized in stable condition. The driver was not arrested or charged.
A 95-year-old woman who survived the Nazi occupation of Ukraine , the Chernobyl disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic was killed by a driver as she crossed the street outside her Brooklyn home on Thursday.
Gil’s family on Sunday remembered her as a towering figure in Bensonhurst’s Jewish community and said she still had many years left in her.Gil moved to Kyiv with her mother and brother when she was 12 after their hometown of Khmelnytskyi was invaded by the Nazis, according to a 2020 article written about her in the. She met her husband Vilyam in the Ukrainian capital and the couple started a family, having twin daughters while the country was under Soviet rule.
Gil, who had seven great grandchildren, “helped raise children to my sister, and then she helped me to raise mine,” Lizunova said."She basically raised me since day one," said Gil's granddaughter Natasha Famighetti. "She was the kindest, most generous person I’ve ever met.”Galina Berbzhinskaya, who lives in Gil’s building, recalled her as “a good woman.”
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