Riva Hornshtein

Year of birth: 1922
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

Riva Hornshtein was born in the village of Krasne, Vinnytsia oblast, in 1922.

Family: Riva’s parents were Khava and Iosyf. She lived in Kyiv with her uncle Natan, aunt Buzia, and cousin Bella.

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

When German troops occupied Kyiv, Riva was a student.

Riva was shot together with her uncle’s family at Babyn Yar in Kyiv on September 29 or 30, 1941.