List of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

The title of Righteous Among the Nations ^[a] 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. ^{[6] [7]} 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. ^{[8] [b]} 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, ^[8] while additional hundreds of thousands arrived in the country between 1939 and 1941 as refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe . ^[10] The Nazi's occupation of Ukraine began with the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union ^[c] on 22 June 1941 and lasted until 28 October 1944, when Soviet Red Army troops completed the liberation of Ukraine's territory. ^[11] By the time of the invasion, 2.7 million Jews resided in the territory making up modern-day Ukraine; ^[d] of this total, over 1.5 million (~60%) were murdered near their hometowns or in ghettos, ^[e] approximately 900,000 fled or were evacuated into the Soviet interior, ^[f] and roughly 100,000 survived under occupation— ^[12] many through the actions of Ukraine's Righteous Among the Nations. ^[13] This is a partial list of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations:

List

Righteous Among the Nations of Ukraine

Names [g]	Yad Vashem No. [h]	Year [i]	Refs
Abramchuk Mikhail & Yekaterina	10256	2004	[14]
Adamchuk, Bronislava	12212.1	2011	[14]
Afanashchenko, Khavronia	13334	2016	[14]
Afitski, Anton & Maria & ch. Antonina & Ivan	9837.1	2002	[14]
Akhiezer Neonila (Chistiukhina)	8989	2000	[14]
Aksenchuk, Evstahi & Anna; son Bogdan	6359	1994	[14]
Alabusheva-Brandt, Maria	7708	1997	[14]
Alekhina, Maria; her mother Utkina Anna	7374	1996	[14]
Aleksiuk, Nadezhda	10182	2004	[14]
Altynnikova, Anna	5180.1	1992	[14]
Ambruzhuk Anna & Feodor; her mother Yevdokia	10205.1	2004	[14]
Ananenko, Anna & daughter Feodosia	8499	2000	[14]
Andrievskaya, Yevgenia	8318	1999	[14]
Andriyevski, Vasili & Maria	10728	2006	[14]
Andruschik, Manilo & Afanasia	8940	2000	[14]
Anischuk, Boris & Yevgenia	8735.1	1999	[14]
Anishkievich, Anna & Lukian; ds: Lidia, Yevgenia, Vera	4948	1992	[14]
Anisimova, Natalia	8390	1999	[14]
Antonets, Grigory & Yekaterina	7412	1996	[14]
Antoniuk, Anna	10053	2003	[14]
Antoniuk, Feodor; son Grigory	6476.1	1995	[14]
Antymaniuk, Mitrofan & Anna; d. Elena	7700	1997	[14]
Anufriev, Jozef	4536	1990	[14]
Apanasenko, Kirill & Daria & dght. Varvara Kupchik	12500	2012	[14]
Aponchuk, Stepan & Varvara	11389	2008	[14]
Apraksina, Tatiana	8201	1998	[14]
Arkhitiuk, Feodor & Olga	9543.1	2001	[14]
Avdeenko Sergei & Tatiana; ch. Valentin, Igor	7034	1996	[14]
Avetisyan, Inna (Lukianovich)	8113	2004	[14]
Babaeva, Alexandra	6437.1	1995	[14]
Babchun, Alexander & Natalia & son Feodor	8795	2000	[14]
Babich, Maria	314	1963	[14]
Babienko, Lidia (sister of Visokos, V.)	6799	1995	[14]
Babkina Matryona	10456	2004	[14]
Babyichuk, Feodor & Praskovia	12673	2013	[14]
Bachek, Maria & son Peotr	8849	2000	[14]
Bagno, Grigori	6591.1	1995	[14]
Bainak, Aleksandra	13819	2019	[14]
Bakai, Jozef & Yekaterina	7948	1998	[14]
Balaban, Dmitri & Maria	6917	1997	[14]
Balaban, Yuri & Maria	2068	1981	[14]
Balanutsa, Klavdia	9636.2	2002	[14]
Balebina, Klavdia	7561	1998	[14]
Balitskaya, Olga	8724	2001	[14]
Baliuk, Yevdokia	8902	2000	[14]
Balyk, Iosip & Franciszka; dght.: Helena	6563	1995	[14]
Banakh, Sofia & daughter Yelena	9116	2000	[14]
Bandurski, Jan & Maria	13570	2017	[14]
Barabash, Vera	9698	2004	[14]
Baran, Ilya & Maria & son Grigori	9333.1	2001	[14]
Baran, Mikhail & Agafia	9333	2001	[14]
Baranchuk, Kirill	9230.1	2001	[14]
Baranenko, Feodor & Natalia	7600	1997/1998	[14]
Baranetskaya, Emilia	9142.1	2001	[14]
Baranovskiy, Marko & Marina	13863.1	2019	[14]
Barbaruk, Ivan & Oksenia & son Ivan	12403	2012	[14]
Bashtannaya, Natalia	8554.1	1999	[14]
Basova, Yelizaveta	8415.1	1999	[14]
Bator, Aleksander & Maria	10467	2005	[14]
Bebekh, Maksim	13566	2017	[14]
Belegai, Mikhailo & Lubomira	10149	2003	[14]
Beletskaya, Anna	5979.1	1994	[14]
Belinski, Anna & Ivan	10087	2003	[14]
Belopolskaya, Vera	8267	1999	[14]
Belostotskaya, Maria; children Stepan & Nina; granddaughter Neonila	8699	1999	[14]
Belous, Sofia (Perius)	12292	2011	[14]
Belousov, Dmitry & Marina; children: Aleksander, Anna (Grek)	4495	1990	[14]
Belova, Alexandra	6752.3	1995	[14]
Belyi, Vasily	7109	1996	[14]
Berezhnitski, Jas & Olena	6278	1994	[14]
Bessmertnaya, Akulina	6318.1	1995	[14]
Bevziuk, Nadezhda	6501	1995	[14]
Bey, Mitrofan & Yekaterina & son Nikolai	9079	2000	[14]
Bielski, Fruma (Dedek, Frania)	10749	2006	[14]
Biletskiy, Leon & Maria; ch: Roman, Yaroslava	4474	1990	[14]
Biletskiy, Yevgeni; ch:Yulian, Anna (Kifor)	4474.1	1990	[14]
Bilichenko, Grigori	7764	1997	[14]
Bilyk, Sofia	7698	1997	[14]
Bilyk, Yefrosinia & dght. Maria Guzanova	10660	2006	[14]
Binat, Yelizaveta	6917	1997	[14]
Blanutsa, Peotr & Khristina	10117	2003	[14]
Blashchuk, Yekaterina	11920	2010	[14]
Blashkevich, Anton & Eugenia; d. Maria Parkhin	5909	1994	[14]
Bobovik, Yevgenia & ch. Viktor & Yelena	9835	2002	[14]
Bobrov, Yakov & Antosya	8662	1999	[14]
Bobrovsky, Maria; ch: Mikhail, Nikolaj	5177	1992	[14]
Bochkov, Georgyi	6478	2001	[14]
Bochkova, Yevgenia; ch: Boris & Melania	6478	1995	[14]
Bodnar, Feodor & Mariana	9576	2001	[14]
Bodnar, Mikhail & Nina	9576.1	2001	[14]
Bogachuk, Matvei & Anna & daughter Tatiana	9445.1	2001	[14]
Bogaditsa, Vera & son Vladimir	13567	2017	[14]
Bogancha, Prokofy & Yevdokia	11225	2007	[14]
Bogdanova, Praskovia	6390	1994	[14]
Bogoniuk, Juhim & Tekla	7233.1	1996	[14]
Boiko Valentina	10129	2005	[14]
Boiko, Lukia	13784	2019	[14]
Boiko, Marina	6811	1995	[14]
Boiko, Peotr & Lidia	10132	2003	[14]
Boiko, Vasili & Vera	9902	2003	[14]
Boiko, Yefrosinia; daughter Sofia	7710	1997	[14]
Bomok, Mikhail & Maria	8987	2000	[14]
Bondar, Aleksandra; mother Anna (Vakulskaya)	10012	2003	[14]
Bondar, Grigoriy	13442.1	2017	[14]
Bondar, Kleopatra	8902	2000	[14]
Bondar, Natalia	12473.1	2012	[14]
Bondar, Polina (Kurilenko)	8049.1	1998	[14]
Bondar, Yekaterina	8850	2000	[14]
Bondarchuk, Mikhail & Yevgenia	7370	1996	[14]
Bondarenko, Ivan & Maria; ch: Ivan, Anastasia	5217	1992	[14]
Bondarenko, Vasili & Anna	9510	2002	[14]
Bondarenko, Yekaterina	8074	1998	[14]
Bondarenko, Praskovia	6436.1	1995	[14]
Bondar-Gladko, Elena	7037	1996	[14]
Borachuk, Galina	7290	1996	[14]
Borchakovskaya-Rudiuk, Klavdia	7149	1998	[14]
Borchakovsky, Mikhail & Yevdokia	7149	1996	[14]
Borisiuk, Aleksandr & Yulia	12316.1	2012	[14]
Borisiuk, Arkhip & Faina	6983.1	1996	[14]
Boriskina, Anastasia	6413	1994	[14]
Borisov, Ivan & Ksenia	13822.1	2019	[14]
Borodacheva, Daria; d. Yelena	7362	1997	[14]
Borovskaya, Makrina	8486	1999	[14]
Botsaniuk, Mokrina	9683.2	2002	[14]
Botsmanovskaya, Vera	13663	2018	[14]
Bovkun, Georgy	7248	1996	[14]
Bovtun, Pelageya & dght. Yakilina Kasyan	13310	2016	[14]
Boychenko, Feodor & Lidia	11700	2010	[14]
Boyeva, Olga & her dghtrs. Lubov & Nadezhda	7670	2007	[14]
Boyko, Vasili & Yevdokia	11010	2007	[14]
Boykovskiy, Ivan & Mrs.	12176	2011	[14]
Boyuk, Yevdokia & Ivan	8055	1998	[14]
Boyus, Vaselyna	7759	1997	[14]
Bozhkov, Stepan & Maria & daughter Tamara	8491	1999	[14]
Breitshnaider, Anatoli	6566	1995	[14]
Breus, Avtonom & Melania & daughter Galina	8586	1999	[14]
Brizhak, Ivan & Olga	7257	1997	[14]
Brizhan, Vlas	7707.2	1997	[14]
Brizhaty, Nikolai & Maria	8075.2	1998	[14]
Bronitskaya, Maria	9855	2003	[14]
Brovarnik, Maria	7322	1996	[14]
Bruyevich, Georgiy	10419.1	2004	[14]
Budnevsky, Matvey & Yekaterina	7506	1997	[14]
Budnik, Maria & sister Anna	8134	1999	[14]
Budnik, Stepan & son Semion	8134	1998	[14]
Buga, Maria & Vladimir	7908	1998	[14]
Bugai, Vasil & Marina	9117	2001	[14]
Bugay, Sofia	5036.1	1991	[14]
Bukovsky, Ivan & Anna; ds. Liubov, Nadezhda	5987	1994	[14]
Buksa, Mykola & Mikhaylina	12222	2011	[14]
Bulyga-Polischuk, Lidia	8219.1	1999	[14]
Burgelo, Olga	10990	2019	[14]
Burik, Kristina; daughter Tamara	6704	1996	[14]
Burkovskiy, Martyn	12827	2014	[14]
Buryak, Anton & Daria	8912.1	2000	[14]
Burygin, Nikolay & Nadezhda	11653	2009	[14]
Bushinski, Franz	9578	2002	[14]
Buvajlik, Grigory	5182.3	1992	[14]
Bychenko, Raisa & her husband Antonin Ionesko	6837	1996	[14]
Cebrynski, Tadeusz (Brother Teodosy)	421.3	1984	[14]
Chaichuk, Ivan & Yaryna	8736	1999	[14]
Chaika, Afanasij & Fedora; son Viktor	5178	1992	[14]
Chaika, Sava	5962.4	1994	[14]
Chaika, Vera	9974	2003	[14]
Chaikovski, Stepan & Anna	10065	2003	[14]
Chaikovski, Vladimir & his parents Teofila & Pavel	12145	2011	[14]
Chaplinski, Grigori & Nadezhda & son Anatoli	8556	1999	[14]
Chayun, Agrippina; d. Galina (Lapchinskaya)	5979	1994	[14]
Chebanok, Ivan	10353.2	2004	[14]
Chebotkov, Grigori & Anastasia	10043	2003	[14]
Chekhova, Ludmila; daughter Natalia	5217	1992	[14]
Chemeriskaya, Frosina; daughter Nina	10205	2004	[14]
Chentsova, Galina; sister Valentina	6016	1994	[14]
Cheremucha, Andrei & Anastasia; s. Valentin	4715	1990	[14]
Cheretovich, Anatoli & Vera	9482	2001	[14]
Cherkasova, Anna	13944	2020	[14]
Chernetski, Vikentyi & his step-mother Lidia	6860.1	1995	[14]
Chernetsova, Juzefa	8264.1	1998	[14]
Cherni, Feodosi	12789	2014	[14]
Cherni, Semion	12789.1	2014	[14]
Chernoshtan, Vasiliy	14008.1	2020	[14]
Chernous, Feodor & Yekaterina; ch: Maria, Aleksander	5802	1994	[14]
Chernova, Anna & daughter Nadezhda	8337	1999	[14]
Chernovol, Vladimir	6666	1996	[14]
Chernyi, Ilya	14125.1	2021	[14]
Chernyshev, Afanasi & Yelizaveta	10631	2006	[14]
Cheshnivskaya, Anna	8959.2	2000	[14]
Cholhan, Liubov (Hirniak)	11628	2009	[14]
Chornaya, Maria	8219	1999	[14]
Chudakova, Nadezhda & her daughter Nila Shemshurina	13481	2017	[14]
Chugai, Feodor & Yevdokia	9642	2002	[14]
Chujesh, Konstantin & Domna	9384.2	2001	[14]
Chukhacheva, Anna	9121.2	2000	[14]
Chulovskaya-Morozova, Neonila	7037.2	1996	[14]
Chumak, Pavel	6860.2	1995	[14]
Chverkaliuk, Kapitolina	8902.2	2000	[14]
Czubatyj, Danylo & Rostislawa	10793	2006	[14]
Danilchuk, Daria	9432.1	2001	[14]
Danilchuk, Vasili	7340	1996	[14]
Danilevskaya, Uliana; daughter Anastasia	10420	2004	[14]
Daniliuk, Zonya	8147	1998	[14]
Daniliuk, Leonida	7095	1996	[14]
Danilko, Maria	7413.1	1997	[14]
Danilkovich, Domna	9226	2001	[14]
Daniuk, Yekaterina & Nikolai	7947	1998	[14]
Dardalevich, Antonina & Iosif	9720	2003	[14]
Darmoroz, Ivan & Lubov	9142	2001	[14]
Datsko, Olga	10457	2004	[14]
Davidenko, Fedor & Lubov	6734	1996	[14]
Deineko, Mark & Lidia & dght. Oksana Antipchuk	12898	2014	[14]
Dekhtyaruk, Andrey & Olga	11924	2010	[14]
Demidenko, Maria	11329	2008	[14]
Demus, Bronislawa & daughter Galina	9283	2001	[14]
Demyanchuk, Alexey & Matriona & daughter Olga	8684	1999	[14]
Denisenko, Tatiana	11393	2008	[14]
Denitskiy, Aleksandr	13842	2019	[14]
Derik, Magdalina	6213	1994	[14]
Derun, Safron & Solomia	7201.1	1996	[14]
Derun, Tatiana	7201	2003	[14]
Devyatko-Belousova, Olga	8746.1	1999	[14]
Diachuk, Alexander & Solomia & son Pavlo	9143	2000	[14]
Didenko, Yakov & Maria	12669.1	2013	[14]
Didukh, Andrey & Anelya & daughter Stefania Petrushka	12659	2013	[14]
Dikalova, Vera; sister Daria Bozhko	10228	2004	[14]
Diki, Vasili & Anna; son Nikolai	6061	1994	[14]
Dikiy, Viktor	10461.1	2005	[14]
Dimitruk, Gerasim	12796	2014	[14]
Diordiev, Leonid & Olga	6881	1995	[14]
Diordyay, Maria (Tokar)	12689	2013	[14]
Divakova, Maria	7152	2000	[14]
Dlozhevski, Vladimir & Maria	9863	2003	[14]
Dmitrakova, Ludmila	9680	2002	[14]
Dmitruk, Maria; daughters Gnatiuk, Varvara and Sofia	9753	2002	[14]
Dobriyan, Aleksander & Stanislava	9885	2003	[14]
Dobrovolsky, Aleksander & Yekaterina	6441	1995	[14]
Dolgopolov, Ignat & Olga	8979	2000	[14]
Dolinsky, Vavrik (father of Dovgoshiya H)	8004	1998	[14]
Domanski, Ivan & Praskovia; his sister Nadezhda	4475	1990	[14]
Domanski, Mikhail & Nadezhda	4475	1990	[14]
Dombrovskaya, Yelena	10347.1	2004	[14]
Domoratskaya, Valentina & son Viktor	8061.1	1999	[14]
Domrina, Yekaterina & her husband Nikolay Nikitin & dght. Larisa	13785.1	2018	[14]
Domuschey, Ivan & Yevdokia; son Aleksei	10353.1	2004	[14]

See also

• Word of the Righteous

Notes

1. Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, romanized: ḥasidei ummot ha'olam, ^{[1] [2]} also Chasidei Umot HaOlam; ^[3] Ukrainian: Праведники народів світу, romanized: Pravednyky narodiv svitu, ^[4] also Праведник світу, Pravednyk svitu ^[5]
2. Ukraine's Jewish population was historically large due to antisemitic Russian Empire policies that confined Jews to the Pale of Settlement—an area covering much of the empire’s non-Russian western lands, including Ukraine. ^[9]
3. Including then-Soviet Ukraine.
4. The population of Jews as recorded in mid-1941, just prior to the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, on the territory comprising modern-day Ukraine, including Crimea, which was administratively part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic at the time. In total, Jews and people of Jewish descent made up approximately five percent of the population of Soviet Ukraine.
5. The massacres were primarily carried out by Einsatzgruppen —Nazi SS paramilitary death squads—with the assistance of other Nazi and collaborators. The most substantial collaborationist forces were subordinated Ukrainian local police, military units, and other forces that generally consisted of some fascist anti-Soviet Ukrainian militias. While some Jews were deported from Ukraine to various concentration and death camps in occupied Poland, most were killed near their homes or at other locations in occupied Ukraine. Based on modern-day borders, those killed in Ukraine make up one in every four Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
6. Mostly to Central Asia and Siberia.
7. Individuals are included and grouped based on Yad Vashem's official list of Ukraine's Righteous. Individuals recognized as Righteous after 1 January 2022 are included and grouped based on official confirmation from various sources, including Ukrainian media reports. For Righteous recognized before 2022, name transliterations, nicknames, and notable family connections between individuals are shown as indicated by Yad Vashem's records. For those recognized after 2022, modern standard Ukrainian name transliterations are used while nicknames and family connections are shown if included in multiple sources or official announcements. ^[14]
8. The numerical code assigned by Yad Vashem after the nominated group or individual was officially given the title of Righteous and inscribed in Yad Vashem's records.
9. Years in which the individual(s) were officially given the title of Righteous and included in Yad Vashem's list.

References

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5. В Україні ще три родини отримали почесне звання «Праведник народів світу» [Three more families in Ukraine received the honorary title "Righteous Among the Nations"]. Ukrinform (in Ukrainian). 23 May 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
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