Yelizaveta Voloshina was born in Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine in 1924, on her family’s sheep farm. In 1941, to escape the German invasion, Yelizaveta and her family moved, with the sheep, eastwards, towards Kharkov (Kharkiv). They traveled by foot for 2 months. When Yelizaveta and her family arrived in Kharkov, the Russian army asked them to use their sheep to feed Russian soldiers. The family continued on without their sheep through the Ural Mountains. In 1942, Yelizaveta enrolled in the Russian Army as a nurse at a local military hospital until 1946. Yelizaveta’s family that remained in Kiev (Kyiv) were lost in the massacre of Babi Yar. Her family lost in Babi Yar were Josef Pristupov, her grandfather, father’s side; Miron Pristupov, her great uncle, father’s side; Itzaak Voloshina and Rahkil Voloshina, her husband’s parents; Syema Voloshina, her husband’s brother; Bentsion Salyuk, her grandfather’s uncle; Chiam Voloshina her grandmother’s sister’s husband; Clara and Genie, daughters of her grandmother’s sister, and their 5 children. After the war, Yelizaveta returned to Kiev (Kyiv) with her surviving family. She and her sister returned to work in 1949. Yelizaveta married her husband, Gregory, in 1949 and began university. Yelizaveta came to the United States to settle in the Chicagoland area in May 1993.