List of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

The title of Righteous Among the Nations has been given by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial center of Israel, to over 2,707 non-Jewish individuals who were found to have risked their lives or livelihoods to help protect and save Jews from The Holocaust in Ukraine. Prior to World War II, Ukraine was home to over 1.5 million Jews, making it the largest Jewish community in the Soviet Union and among the largest in Europe. With the war's start in 1939, the Soviet annexations of eastern Poland and parts of Romania significantly increased Soviet Ukraine's Jewish population, which rose to 2.45 million, while additional hundreds of thousands arrived in the country between 1939 and 1941 as refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. The Nazi's occupation of Ukraine began with the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 and lasted until 28 October 1944, when Soviet Red Army troops completed the liberation of Ukraine's territory. By the time of the invasion, 2.7 million Jews resided in the territory making up modern-day Ukraine; of this total, over 1.5 million (~60%) were murdered near their hometowns or in ghettos, approximately 900,000 fled or were evacuated into the Soviet interior, and roughly 100,000 survived under occupation— many through the actions of Ukraine's Righteous Among the Nations. This is a partial list of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations:


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