Bella Hornstein

Year of birth: 1921
Date of death: September 29-30, 1941
Place of death: Babyn Yar
Stumbling Stone address: 27/78, Pankivska Street
Date of Stumbling Stone installation: October 26, 2026
Research teams
Caregiver Yes

Research teams

Students of ORT Lyceum No. 141
Svitlana Symonenko, teacher of History, Law, and Civic Education
Anastasiia Piasetska
Daryna Litsenko
Vsevolod Mokliak
Ivan Osypenko
Diana Tarkhanova

Bella Hornstein was born in the village of Krasne, Vinnytsia region, in 1921.

Family: Bella lived in Kyiv with her father Natan, her mother Buzia, and her cousin Riva. Her mother was a housewife and her father a mill worker.

The Hornshtein family lived in the village of Krasne in Vinnytsia region. Later, according to family accounts, they exchanged homes with a family of friends and moved into their apartment in Kyiv at 66 Zhylianska Street, apartment 32.

When German troops occupied Kyiv, Bella was a student at Kyiv State University (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv).

The entire family was shot at Babyn Yar in Kyiv on September 29 or 30, 1941.