The title of Righteous Among the Nations has been given by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial center of Israel, to over 2,707 non-Jewish individuals who were found to have risked their lives or livelihoods to help protect and save Jews from The Holocaust in Ukraine. Prior to World War II, Ukraine was home to over 1.5 million Jews, making it the largest Jewish community in the Soviet Union and among the largest in Europe. With the war's start in 1939, the Soviet annexations of eastern Poland and parts of Romania significantly increased Soviet Ukraine's Jewish population, which rose to 2.45 million, while additional hundreds of thousands arrived in the country between 1939 and 1941 as refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. The Nazi's occupation of Ukraine began with the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 and lasted until 28 October 1944, when Soviet Red Army troops completed the liberation of Ukraine's territory. By the time of the invasion, 2.7 million Jews resided in the territory making up modern-day Ukraine; of this total, over 1.5 million (~60%) were murdered near their hometowns or in ghettos, approximately 900,000 fled or were evacuated into the Soviet interior, and roughly 100,000 survived under occupation— many through the actions of Ukraine's Righteous Among the Nations.

This is a partial list of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations:

List

+ Names Yad Vashem Year Abramchuk Mikhail & Yekaterina 10256 2004 Adamchuk, Bronislava 12212.1 2011 Afanashchenko, Khavronia 13334 2016 Afitski, Anton & Maria & ch. Antonina & Ivan 9837.1 2002 Akhiezer Neonila (Chistiukhina) 8989 2000 Aksenchuk, Evstahi & Anna; son Bogdan 6359 1994 Alabusheva-Brandt, Maria 7708 1997 Alekhina, Maria; her mother Utkina Anna 7374 1996 Aleksiuk, Nadezhda 10182 2004 Altynnikova, Anna 5180.1 1992 Ambruzhuk Anna & Feodor; her mother Yevdokia 10205.1 2004 Ananenko, Anna & daughter Feodosia 8499 2000 Andrievskaya, Yevgenia 8318 1999 Andriyevski, Vasili & Maria 10728 2006 Andruschik, Manilo & Afanasia 8940 2000 Anischuk, Boris & Yevgenia 8735.1 1999 Anishkievich, Anna & Lukian; ds: Lidia, Yevgenia, Vera 4948 1992 Anisimova, Natalia 8390 1999 Antonets, Grigory & Yekaterina 7412 1996 Antoniuk, Anna 10053 2003 Antoniuk, Feodor; son Grigory 6476.1 1995 Antymaniuk, Mitrofan & Anna; d. Elena 7700 1997 Anufriev, Jozef 4536 1990 Apanasenko, Kirill & Daria & dght. Varvara Kupchik 12500 2012 Aponchuk, Stepan & Varvara 11389 2008 Apraksina, Tatiana 8201 1998 Arkhitiuk, Feodor & Olga 9543.1 2001 Avdeenko Sergei & Tatiana; ch. Valentin, Igor 7034 1996 Avetisyan, Inna (Lukianovich) 8113 2004 Babaeva, Alexandra 6437.1 1995 Babchun, Alexander & Natalia & son Feodor 8795 2000 Babich, Maria 314 1963 Babienko, Lidia (sister of Visokos, V.) 6799 1995 Babkina Matryona 10456 2004 Babyichuk, Feodor & Praskovia 12673 2013 Bachek, Maria & son Peotr 8849 2000 Bagno, Grigori 6591.1 1995 Bainak, Aleksandra 13819 2019 Bakai, Jozef & Yekaterina 7948 1998 Balaban, Dmitri & Maria 6917 1997 Balaban, Yuri & Maria 2068 1981 Balanutsa, Klavdia 9636.2 2002 Balebina, Klavdia 7561 1998 Balitskaya, Olga 8724 2001 Baliuk, Yevdokia 8902 2000 Balyk, Iosip & Franciszka; dght.: Helena 6563 1995 Banakh, Sofia & daughter Yelena 9116 2000 Bandurski, Jan & Maria 13570 2017 Barabash, Vera 9698 2004 Baran, Ilya & Maria & son Grigori 9333.1 2001 Baran, Mikhail & Agafia 9333 2001 Baranchuk, Kirill 9230.1 2001 Baranenko, Feodor & Natalia 7600 1997/1998 Baranetskaya, Emilia 9142.1 2001 Baranovskiy, Marko & Marina 13863.1 2019 Barbaruk, Ivan & Oksenia & son Ivan 12403 2012 Bashtannaya, Natalia 8554.1 1999 Basova, Yelizaveta 8415.1 1999 Bator, Aleksander & Maria 10467 2005 Bebekh, Maksim 13566 2017 Belegai, Mikhailo & Lubomira 10149 2003 Beletskaya, Anna 5979.1 1994 Belinski, Anna & Ivan 10087 2003 Belopolskaya, Vera 8267 1999 Belostotskaya, Maria; children Stepan & Nina; granddaughter Neonila 8699 1999 Belous, Sofia (Perius) 12292 2011 Belousov, Dmitry & Marina; children: Aleksander, Anna (Grek) 4495 1990 Belova, Alexandra 6752.3 1995 Belyi, Vasily 7109 1996 Berezhnitski, Jas & Olena 6278 1994 Bessmertnaya, Akulina 6318.1 1995 Bevziuk, Nadezhda 6501 1995 Bey, Mitrofan & Yekaterina & son Nikolai 9079 2000 Bielski, Fruma (Dedek, Frania) 10749 2006 Biletskiy, Leon & Maria; ch: Roman, Yaroslava 4474 1990 Biletskiy, Yevgeni; ch:Yulian, Anna (Kifor) 4474.1 1990 Bilichenko, Grigori 7764 1997 Bilyk, Sofia 7698 1997 Bilyk, Yefrosinia & dght. Maria Guzanova 10660 2006 Binat, Yelizaveta 6917 1997 Blanutsa, Peotr & Khristina 10117 2003 Blashchuk, Yekaterina 11920 2010 Blashkevich, Anton & Eugenia; d. Maria Parkhin 5909 1994 Bobovik, Yevgenia & ch. Viktor & Yelena 9835 2002 Bobrov, Yakov & Antosya 8662 1999 Bobrovsky, Maria; ch: Mikhail, Nikolaj 5177 1992 Bochkov, Georgyi 6478 2001 Bochkova, Yevgenia; ch: Boris & Melania 6478 1995 Bodnar, Feodor & Mariana 9576 2001 Bodnar, Mikhail & Nina 9576.1 2001 Bogachuk, Matvei & Anna & daughter Tatiana 9445.1 2001 Bogaditsa, Vera & son Vladimir 13567 2017 Bogancha, Prokofy & Yevdokia 11225 2007 Bogdanova, Praskovia 6390 1994 Bogoniuk, Juhim & Tekla 7233.1 1996 Boiko Valentina 10129 2005 Boiko, Lukia 13784 2019 Boiko, Marina 6811 1995 Boiko, Peotr & Lidia 10132 2003 Boiko, Vasili & Vera 9902 2003 Boiko, Yefrosinia; daughter Sofia 7710 1997 Bomok, Mikhail & Maria 8987 2000 Bondar, Aleksandra; mother Anna (Vakulskaya) 10012 2003 Bondar, Grigoriy 13442.1 2017 Bondar, Kleopatra 8902 2000 Bondar, Natalia 12473.1 2012 Bondar, Polina (Kurilenko) 8049.1 1998 Bondar, Yekaterina 8850 2000 Bondarchuk, Mikhail & Yevgenia 7370 1996 Bondarenko, Ivan & Maria; ch: Ivan, Anastasia 5217 1992 Bondarenko, Vasili & Anna 9510 2002 Bondarenko, Yekaterina 8074 1998 Bondarenko, Praskovia 6436.1 1995 Bondar-Gladko, Elena 7037 1996 Borachuk, Galina 7290 1996 Borchakovskaya-Rudiuk, Klavdia 7149 1998 Borchakovsky, Mikhail & Yevdokia 7149 1996 Borisiuk, Aleksandr & Yulia 12316.1 2012 Borisiuk, Arkhip & Faina 6983.1 1996 Boriskina, Anastasia 6413 1994 Borisov, Ivan & Ksenia 13822.1 2019 Borodacheva, Daria; d. Yelena 7362 1997 Borovskaya, Makrina 8486 1999 Botsaniuk, Mokrina 9683.2 2002 Botsmanovskaya, Vera 13663 2018 Bovkun, Georgy 7248 1996 Bovtun, Pelageya & dght. Yakilina Kasyan 13310 2016 Boychenko, Feodor & Lidia 11700 2010 Boyeva, Olga & her dghtrs. Lubov & Nadezhda 7670 2007 Boyko, Vasili & Yevdokia 11010 2007 Boykovskiy, Ivan & Mrs. 12176 2011 Boyuk, Yevdokia & Ivan 8055 1998 Boyus, Vaselyna 7759 1997 Bozhkov, Stepan & Maria & daughter Tamara 8491 1999 Breitshnaider, Anatoli 6566 1995 Breus, Avtonom & Melania & daughter Galina 8586 1999 Brizhak, Ivan & Olga 7257 1997 Brizhan, Vlas 7707.2 1997 Brizhaty, Nikolai & Maria 8075.2 1998 Bronitskaya, Maria 9855 2003 Brovarnik, Maria 7322 1996 Bruyevich, Georgiy 10419.1 2004 Budnevsky, Matvey & Yekaterina 7506 1997 Budnik, Maria & sister Anna 8134 1999 Budnik, Stepan & son Semion 8134 1998 Buga, Maria & Vladimir 7908 1998 Bugai, Vasil & Marina 9117 2001 Bugay, Sofia 5036.1 1991 Bukovsky, Ivan & Anna; ds. Liubov, Nadezhda 5987 1994 Buksa, Mykola & Mikhaylina 12222 2011 Bulyga-Polischuk, Lidia 8219.1 1999 Burgelo, Olga 10990 2019 Burik, Kristina; daughter Tamara 6704 1996 Burkovskiy, Martyn 12827 2014 Buryak, Anton & Daria 8912.1 2000 Burygin, Nikolay & Nadezhda 11653 2009 Bushinski, Franz 9578 2002 Buvajlik, Grigory 5182.3 1992 Bychenko, Raisa & her husband Antonin Ionesko 6837 1996 Cebrynski, Tadeusz (Brother Teodosy) 421.3 1984 Chaichuk, Ivan & Yaryna 8736 1999 Chaika, Afanasij & Fedora; son Viktor 5178 1992 Chaika, Sava 5962.4 1994 Chaika, Vera 9974 2003 Chaikovski, Stepan & Anna 10065 2003 Chaikovski, Vladimir & his parents Teofila & Pavel 12145 2011 Chaplinski, Grigori & Nadezhda & son Anatoli 8556 1999 Chayun, Agrippina; d. Galina (Lapchinskaya) 5979 1994 Chebanok, Ivan 10353.2 2004 Chebotkov, Grigori & Anastasia 10043 2003 Chekhova, Ludmila; daughter Natalia 5217 1992 Chemeriskaya, Frosina; daughter Nina 10205 2004 Chentsova, Galina; sister Valentina 6016 1994 Cheremucha, Andrei & Anastasia; s. Valentin 4715 1990 Cheretovich, Anatoli & Vera 9482 2001 Cherkasova, Anna 13944 2020 Chernetski, Vikentyi & his step-mother Lidia 6860.1 1995 Chernetsova, Juzefa 8264.1 1998 Cherni, Feodosi 12789 2014 Cherni, Semion 12789.1 2014 Chernoshtan, Vasiliy 14008.1 2020 Chernous, Feodor & Yekaterina; ch: Maria, Aleksander 5802 1994 Chernova, Anna & daughter Nadezhda 8337 1999 Chernovol, Vladimir 6666 1996 Chernyi, Ilya 14125.1 2021 Chernyshev, Afanasi & Yelizaveta 10631 2006 Cheshnivskaya, Anna 8959.2 2000 Cholhan, Liubov (Hirniak) 11628 2009 Chornaya, Maria 8219 1999 Chudakova, Nadezhda & her daughter Nila Shemshurina 13481 2017 Chugai, Feodor & Yevdokia 9642 2002 Chujesh, Konstantin & Domna 9384.2 2001 Chukhacheva, Anna 9121.2 2000 Chulovskaya-Morozova, Neonila 7037.2 1996 Chumak, Pavel 6860.2 1995 Chverkaliuk, Kapitolina 8902.2 2000 Czubatyj, Danylo & Rostislawa 10793 2006 Danilchuk, Daria 9432.1 2001 Danilchuk, Vasili 7340 1996 Danilevskaya, Uliana; daughter Anastasia 10420 2004 Daniliuk, Zonya 8147 1998 Daniliuk, Leonida 7095 1996 Danilko, Maria 7413.1 1997 Danilkovich, Domna 9226 2001 Daniuk, Yekaterina & Nikolai 7947 1998 Dardalevich, Antonina & Iosif 9720 2003 Darmoroz, Ivan & Lubov 9142 2001 Datsko, Olga 10457 2004 Davidenko, Fedor & Lubov 6734 1996 Deineko, Mark & Lidia & dght. Oksana Antipchuk 12898 2014 Dekhtyaruk, Andrey & Olga 11924 2010 Demidenko, Maria 11329 2008 Demus, Bronislawa & daughter Galina 9283 2001 Demyanchuk, Alexey & Matriona & daughter Olga 8684 1999 Denisenko, Tatiana 11393 2008 Denitskiy, Aleksandr 13842 2019 Derik, Magdalina 6213 1994 Derun, Safron & Solomia 7201.1 1996 Derun, Tatiana 7201 2003 Devyatko-Belousova, Olga 8746.1 1999 Diachuk, Alexander & Solomia & son Pavlo 9143 2000 Didenko, Yakov & Maria 12669.1 2013 Didukh, Andrey & Anelya & daughter Stefania Petrushka 12659 2013 Dikalova, Vera; sister Daria Bozhko 10228 2004 Diki, Vasili & Anna; son Nikolai 6061 1994 Dikiy, Viktor 10461.1 2005 Dimitruk, Gerasim 12796 2014 Diordiev, Leonid & Olga 6881 1995 Diordyay, Maria (Tokar) 12689 2013 Divakova, Maria 7152 2000 Dlozhevski, Vladimir & Maria 9863 2003 Dmitrakova, Ludmila 9680 2002 Dmitruk, Maria; daughters Gnatiuk, Varvara and Sofia 9753 2002 Dobriyan, Aleksander & Stanislava 9885 2003 Dobrovolsky, Aleksander & Yekaterina 6441 1995 Dolgopolov, Ignat & Olga 8979 2000 Dolinsky, Vavrik (father of Dovgoshiya H) 8004 1998 Domanski, Ivan & Praskovia; his sister Nadezhda 4475 1990 Domanski, Mikhail & Nadezhda 4475 1990 Dombrovskaya, Yelena 10347.1 2004 Domoratskaya, Valentina & son Viktor 8061.1 1999 Domrina, Yekaterina & her husband Nikolay Nikitin & dght. Larisa 13785.1 2018 Domuschey, Ivan & Yevdokia; son Aleksei 10353.1 2004

See also Word of the Righteous

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