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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today's story is both heartbreaking and deeply troubling. |
| 0:05.0 | And after we go over everything you need to know, |
| 0:07.0 | we're going to have Dr. John Matthias, |
| 0:09.0 | a criminal psychologist, come on to help us understand. |
| 0:13.0 | So this story is about a woman who had already survived |
| 0:16.0 | one of history's greatest atrocities, the Holocaust, |
| 0:20.0 | only to lose her life decades later |
| 0:23.3 | under horrifying circumstances inside what was supposed to be a place of care and safety. |
| 0:29.2 | We're talking about the murder of 89-year-old Nina Krastoff, a Holocaust survivor, originally |
| 0:37.0 | from Ukraine, who was brutally beaten to death inside a Brooklyn |
| 0:41.2 | nursing home this past September. |
| 0:44.0 | Police say her roommate, a 95-year-old woman who had only just been admitted to the facility, |
| 0:50.2 | is responsible. |
| 0:52.4 | There is now newly released information about Nina's life, the night of the attack, |
| 0:56.8 | the charges now facing the suspect, and many questions being raised about nursing home oversight |
| 1:01.8 | and the care of dementia patients. And before this tragedy, Nina Krafstoff had already lived |
| 1:08.3 | through more than most of us can imagine. Born in Ukraine, she was just five |
| 1:13.8 | years old when she and her family were forced into a ghetto during World War II. Most of her |
| 1:19.0 | large family didn't survive. Nina did in part because her 16-year-old sister caught the eye of the |
| 1:24.8 | ghetto manager and was able to keep moving their names to the bottom of the deportation list. |
| 1:30.5 | And every time new Jewish people arrived, her family's names were pushed down. |
| 1:35.3 | Those at the top were sent to concentration camps. |
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