Topolniak Dariia

Dariia Topolniak lived in the village of Sorokotiazhyntsi in Vinnytsia region. With the beginning of the German-Soviet war, her husband was conscripted to the front, and she stayed with her young children: Nina and Kolia. Sometime in the autumn of 1941, returning from the market to the town of Nemyriv (current – Nemyriv town), a woman went to a local fortune teller to find out about the fate of her husband, from whom she had not received any news since the beginning of the war. The fortune-teller suddenly began asking Dariia to take six-year-old Hanna Fraizonw with her to the village. A few days ago, the girl became an orphan. All her relatives were shot on November 24 during the "Jewish action" in the village of Nemyriv. On the same day, more than 1,400 Jews from the village of Nemyriv. became victims of the Nazis. The fortune-teller found the little girl in the bushes, not far from the place of execution, and was looking for an opportunity to take her out of the city.

Dariia took pity on the orphan and took her with her. She carefully hid it at home, forbade her to go outside. The girl gradually recovered from the experience, got used to the hostess and her children, only cried at night and remembered her mother Fania and brother Lev, who died before her eyes. Once the child was noticed by the neighbors, but Dariia in advance invented a legend that it was the daughter of her cousin, who was taken for forced labor in Germany.

After the war, Dariia took Hanna back to the village of Nemyriv in the hope that one of the girl's relatives had survived. And indeed, later an aunt was found, and then Hanna's father, Leonid Fraizon, was demobilized from the army. When they all left the village of Nemyriv, the connection between the families was lost. Only in the 2000s, Hanna Farizon (married name Zhydovetska) found the contacts of the daughter of her savior – Nina Topolniak.

In 2003, Yad Vashem recognized Dariia Topolniak as the Righteous Among the Nations.

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