Kykavska Taisiia, Sachenko Kateryna

Taisiia ​​Kykavska lived with her two daughters and mother Kateryna Sachenko in Tulchyn in Vinnytsia region. Her husband in 1938 repressed and sent to Siberia. Life trials strengthened the woman, awakened in her mercy and compassion for those who needed help during the German-Soviet war.

The Nazis entered the city of Tulchyn on July 23, 1941. The city was in the Romanian zone of occupation. Over the course of a year, the Romanian occupation authorities created a network of ghettos and labor camps on the Ukrainian lands that became part of Transnistria. Taisiia's friend, the dressmaker Maia Karant, was in one of them with her 16-year-old daughter Liuba.

On November 11, 1941, the Governor of Transnistria, Gheorghe Alexianu, issued Order No. 22 on the settlement of Jews in colonies. According to this document, such a colony for the Jews of Tulchyn was organized in the village of Pechera. On December 10, 1941, over 4,300 Tulchyn Jews were sent there. A high fence with barbed wire surrounded the area. The prisoners nicknamed the camp “Dead loop” because it was impossible to escape from there.

On the eve of this imprisonment, Maia and Liuba asked for shelter in Taisiia ​​Kykavska. The woman accepted them and their relatives – the Rapoport and Shcherb families, saving them from resettlement and execution. When the situation improved, the Jews returned to the local labor camp, where about 100 residents remained. Taisiia ​​visited her wards, brought them food, water, and washed clothes.

In March 1944, when the German and Romanian troops were retreating, Taisiia ​​again took Maia and her daughter and their acquaintance Zoia Moldavska to her house.

After the war, women's friendship strengthened, even after the emigration of Jews to Israel, communication continued.

In 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Taisiia ​​Kykavska and her mother Kateryna Sachenko as Righteous Among the Nations.