Bevziuk Nadiia, Drachi Andron and Tetiana, Kovalenky Danylo, Hanna and Dmytro

Nadiia Bevziuk lived in the village of Tyshkivka in the Vinnytsia region. From a young age, she was friends with a Jewish woman, Olexandra Levina. In the late 1930s, her friend left for Moscow, but periodically returned to her native village to visit relatives and always stayed with Nadiia for a few days.

Just before the German-Soviet war, in May 1941, Olexandra left her daughters, eight-year-old Dora and three-year-old Mila, in Nadiia's care, while she herself went to Georgia for a few weeks to undergo treatment. When the war began, Nadiia was unable to send the girls back to Moscow, and later it became completely unrealistic. Later, the woman realized that the Jewish children were in danger, and began to look for a safe shelter for them. The task was difficult, because it was no secret to anyone that Olexandra was Jewish.

Little Mila was placed with a young couple from Drach, who did not yet have children. Andron and Tatiana were happy to take the girl into their family. But the unexpected happened: in 1942, the occupiers sent Tatiana to forced labor in Germany. Andron, who was suffering from tuberculosis, took care of the Jewish child himself until the end of the German occupation.

Meanwhile, Dora ended up in the village of Mytkiv with the family of Danylo and Hanna Kovalenko. The couple learned about the Jewish girl from Baptists from the village of Tyshkivka and decided to shelter her. Dora quickly got used to her new surroundings, and she developed a particularly warm relationship with the Kovalenkos' son Dmytro, who tried to console the girl by sitting with her in an earthen pit under the barn during the roundups. But in the fall of 1942, Dora had to leave the shelter at the Kovalenko farm and go through a difficult period of wandering between villages in search of food and a temporary place to sleep. Occasionally, the girl visited Nadiia Bevziuk, who continued to take care of her, but could not take her home, because she was under the close supervision of the occupiers. With the arrival of the Red Army in the spring of 1944, Dora settled in Nadiia and studied at the Tyshkivka school for several months.

At the end of the summer, her parents took Dora and Mila home. Olexandra Levina remained grateful to her daughters' rescuers until the end of her life, supporting their families in the difficult post-war years.

In 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Nadiia Bevziuk, Andron and Tatiana Drach, Danylo and Hanna Kovalenko, and their son Dmytro as Righteous Among the Nations.