Lisovyk Tetiana

Tetiana Lisovyk lived with her two children in the village of Ivashkivtsi in the Khmelnytskyi region. During the German occupation, her husband was sent to forced labor in Germany. Despite the risks, the woman hid a Jew, Oleksandr Shtyrberh, in her home for eight months.

Before the war, Oleksandr, with his parents Lazar and Nesiia and his older brothers Volodymyr and Samuil, lived in the village of Nova Ushytsia (now the village of Nova Ushytsia, Kamianets-Podilskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region). In June 1941, the brothers were conscripted into the Red Army. The village was occupied on July 14, and a ghetto appeared there almost immediately. A year after the occupation, a mass shooting took place. On August 20, 1942, the Nazis executed more than 700 Jews from the Novoushytsia ghetto in the “Trykhiv Forest” tract. The members of Shtyrberh family, when they were being taken to be shot, were lucky enough to escape from the column. For about a year, the family hid in the forests, digging dugouts and repeatedly begging for food from residents of nearby farms.

In August 1943, during one of his outings to the village, the Shtyrberh family was captured by the police. Oleksandr again fled, and Lazar and Nesiia were shot. Desperate for food, the boy went to the village of Ivashkivtsi and asked to stay at the home of Tetiana Lisovyk. The woman sheltered the Jew and took care of him until the spring of 1944.

After the war, Oleksandr returned to the village of Nova Ushytsia. Then he studied in Odesa, where he got married. Later, he moved to Kazakhstan with his wife and children. He worked at the Ministry of Agriculture. Throughout his life, he helped his savior and supported her family.

In 2012, Yad Vashem recognized Tetiana Lisovyk as Righteous Among the Nations.

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