Karpyshyn Dmytro, Anelia and Bohdan

During the German occupation, Dmytro and Anelia Karpyshyn, together with their 13-year-old son Bohdan, lived in the village of Kotsiubyntsi in the Ternopil region. In 1943, the Nazis created a labor camp near the village, where they brought about a hundred Jews from the neighboring village of Lisky. Among the prisoners was Dmytro's old friend Abraham Fest with his wife and 17-year-old son Eliyahu.

In November 1943, the Fest couple was shot during the liquidation of the camp, and their son managed to escape and avoid execution. The boy asked the Karpyshyns for help. Despite the danger, the Ukrainian family sheltered the teenager in their house. For five months, he hid in the attic and in the pigsty. Bohdan, the son of the hosts, became a good friend to Eliyahu.

After the war, the survivor emigrated to Israel. The contact was lost for almost half a century. However, when he got the first opportunity, Eliyahu Fest came to Ukraine. In 1992, in his native village, he met his friend Dmytro Karpyshyn, who worked as a physician in the village of Husiatyn. At the site of the mass shooting, they installed a memorial stone in memory of Eliyahu's parents and all the Jews who perished during the Holocaust.

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In 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Dmytro, Anelia, and Bohdan Karpyshyn as Righteous Among the Nations.