The Mariupol Drama Theater, where up to 1,500 residents had gone to shelter, many of them children and elderly citizens. Some 300 people died in the theater when it was attacked by air.
Tales From Mariupol: A Devoted Rabbi and a Devastated Community
Mariupol was besieged so quickly that few residents were able to flee. But Rabbi Cohen had a leg surgery scheduled for mid-February in Israel, and with the Russian army looming at the border, he followed advice to take his whole family along.
