Rita Ginenskaya
December 12, 2022
Sometimes I cannot believe that a child’s memory can preserve all these memories of what my family and I endured. I was thirteen years old
Sometimes I cannot believe that a child’s memory can preserve all these memories of what my family and I endured. I was thirteen years old
Shika Kuperman lived in the Ukrainian town of Dunayevtsy, which was established as a shtetl during the sixteenth century and later was a hub of
The Kapustinsky family, who hid Yevel Sorsher from July 1942 to December 1942, and were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Pictured
Photograph of Renny (Rifka Grynblat) Kurshenbaum wearing a uniform and riding a bicycle while working in the Polish resistance in Warsaw, Poland, c. 1943.
Tatyana Rashkovskaya, a Jewish orphan in Odessa without living relatives, was imprisoned at the start of the war before being moved to the Ghetto. She
Moisey Patyuta and his wife, Anisya, were good friends with Nadezhda Gusareva, a Jewish woman, at the time of the German occupation of Kiev. Fearing
In 1942, after the Germans occupied Ukraine, a child named Viktor Berezin knocked on the Mitrofanovs door begging for food. They took him in and
Benediktas Sindikaitis, Kazimiera Mozurkiene, and Stase Sindikaityte-Minelgiene helped Jews from the onset of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in 1941. They were able to hide
Konstancija Brazeniene was chair of a Catholic women’s organization in Kaunas, Lithuanian. In 1943, when rumors of an Aktion spread throughout the ghetto, Chaya Shilingovski
Ignas and Elena Anuzis lived in the old city of Vilna, where they willingly sheltered Hasya Geselevich, nee Grin. Hasya had previously been sheltered in
Leonid Putan was a student in mathematics and physics at the Belorussian State University in Minsk. In August 1941, he joined the underground and personally
Tatyana Novitzkaya and her daughter, Galina, from the village of Guzolovka, Belarus, took in Irina Rukhovets and her four-year old daughter, Inessa, in 1941 and
Matriona Adamovich was the nursemaid to the Finkelshtein’s two daughters, Ania and Zoya. After the German invasion, the Riva and Naum Finkelshtein joined the Red
Yelena Pechenezhskaya lived in Minsk with her Jewish husband, Levin, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. Yelena’s husband was able to escape, but her
I lived in Minsk, the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the former Soviet Union (now Belarus, an independent country), with my mother
There was a well, a big deep pit without any water in it, located on the outskirts of the village of Broad Stone. Jews from
I was saved by Matryona Ivanovna Adamovich. When the war began, I lived in a cottage near Minsk in the village of Drozdy with my
Yad Vashem has granted the title Righteous Among the Nations to several thousand people in in the countries of the Former Soviet Union. Righteous Michael
Abba Kovner (center) with Ruska Korczak (left) and Vitka Kempner (right) during Vilna’s liberation, Lithuania, July 13, 1944. USHMM: courtesy of Vitka Kempner Kovner. Armed
German soldiers looking on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew, Vinnitsa, German-occupied Ukraine, c. 1941. USHMM: Courtesy of the
