Lohvynenko Hanna

Hanna Lohvynenko lived with her five children in the village of Chyzhove in Odesa region. During the German-Soviet war, the occupiers brought a large group of Jews there. They were placed in collective farm premises for livestock and involved in agricultural work. Hanna met Doba Voll and her daughters Klara, Fira and Fania. The girls were exhausted and suffering from hunger, so they sometimes ran away from the camp and begged among the villagers.

On February 18, 1942, a mass shooting of Jews took place in the labor camp. Doba Voll was among the victims. The girls were lucky to escape and hide in the house of Hanna Lohvynenko. The woman offered them to stay. She understood that she was taking a risk, but being a mother herself, she could not drive the orphans out into the street.

They have lived in the house of the Lohvynenko family for four months. Hanna's children took care of the girls, entertained and comforted them after the loss of their mother. They carefully hid them in the attic, then in the barn. When it was safe, Klara, Fira and Fania had dinner at the same table with the whole family, and this supported them a lot.

In the summer of 1942, one of the neighbors noticed Fania on the Lohvynenko’s yard, and the Voll sisters had to run away. On the same day, Hanna's house was searched. Finding no one, the headman warned the woman that she would be watched.

Klara, Fira and Fania wandered around the neighboring villages, begging and working for food until the end of the occupation in April 1944. Only then they return to Hanna's house and have maintained family relations with her ever since. The Voll sisters later moved to the United States.

In 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Hanna Logvynenko as the Righteous Among the Nations.