Romanyshyn Fedir

Fedir Romanyshin, a widower, lived in the village of Stupky in the Ternopil region with four adult children. During the Nazi occupation, he saved a Jewish child.

In the autumn of 1942, a nine-year-old girl appeared in the Romanyshyns' yard and asked for food – for any work on the farm. It was Yanka Zborover from Ternopil, daughter of a tailor. Her parents were killed in the summer during the liquidation of the ghetto, and she herself ran away and wandered between villages. Fedir immediately understood that this child was Jewish, but did not ask and forbade his children to do so. Before the war, Yanka grew up in a Ukrainian-speaking environment, so she quickly adapted to a new family, helped herd cows, and worked around livestock. Fedir managed to register the girl in the village administration as a relative, and together with the children, he took care of her until the end of the Nazi occupation.

In 1945, at Yanka's request, he took her to Ternopil. There she looked for relatives, then moved with them to Poland, and in 1948 – to Israel.

In the 1960s, Yanka Hideon (Zborover) searched for the Romanyshyn family, thus maintaining friendly relations with the children and grandchildren of her savior.

In 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Fedir Romanyshyn as the Righteous Among the Nations.

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