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A Coney Island nursing home resident allegedly beaten to death by a 95-year-old dementia patient was ID’d by police – as the victim’s daughter remembered her as a Holocaust survivor who gave it all for her family.
Nina Kravtsov, 89, was mortally injured when the unidentified fellow resident of Seagate Rehabilitation and Nursing Center bludgeoned her with a metal wheelchair piece just after 10 p.m. Sunday, according to cops and law enforcement sources.
Kravstov – found lying in bed with a bleeding head wound – was rushed to NYU Brooklyn Hospital, where she was initially listed in critical condition, cops and sources said.
She succumbed to her injuries several hours later, early Monday, cops said.
“Right now I’m grieving….the circumstances of how [my mother] died,” Kravtsov’s daughter, Lucy Flom, told The Post when reached by phone Tuesday.
Flom remembered her mother as a Holocaust survivor who sacrificed for the good of her loved ones.
“She was 5-years old when she was in the ghetto. She had a big family. She lost most of her family.”
Kravtsov launched a nursing career in Ukraine, where “everybody loved her,” and she was also a teen mom, her daughter said.
“She sacrificed a lot,” Flom said. “She was a single mom. She had me when she was 18.
“She came here to give me a good education,” she added. “She was a very dedicated mother.”
“She was a nice lady. She was like many moms – very loving, caring, devoted.”
Flom said her mother later remarried as the daughter gained a stepbrother and stepsister.
“She was a mom to all of us,” Flom said. “We are just grieving.”
Kravtsov also had many friends in Brighton Beach – where she lived for years – some of whom have since passed away, her daughter said.
“They all loved her,” Flom said. “I loved her, too.”
Kravtsov moved to the nursing home about 5 years ago after the death of her husband, her former neighbors in Brighton Beach told The Post.
“She lived here for a very long time,” one resident said. “When her husband passed, she was living alone and her daughter took her to the nursing home.”
Following the deadly attack, the older senior was taken to Coney Island Hospital for both a physical and psychiatric evaluation, sources said.
She remained at the hospital Tuesday as cops conferred with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office about what – if any – charges she should face, the sources said.
The wheelchair piece she allegedly used in the brutal attack was lying on the pavement just outside the facility behind blue crime scene tape Monday afternoon.
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