List of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations

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The title of Righteous Among the Nations[a] 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.[6][7] 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.[8][b] 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,[8] while additional hundreds of thousands arrived in the country between 1939 and 1941 as refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.[10] The Nazi's occupation of Ukraine began with the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union[c] on 22 June 1941 and lasted until 28 October 1944, when Soviet Red Army troops completed the liberation of Ukraine's territory.[11] By the time of the invasion, 2.7 million Jews resided in the territory making up modern-day Ukraine;[d] of this total, over 1.5 million (~60%) were murdered near their hometowns or in ghettos,[e] approximately 900,000 fled or were evacuated into the Soviet interior,[f] and roughly 100,000 survived under occupation—[12] many through the actions of Ukraine's Righteous Among the Nations.[13] This is a partial list of Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations:

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  1. [a]
    Hebrew: חסידי אומות העולם, romanized: ḥasidei ummot ha'olam,[1][2] also Chasidei Umot HaOlam;[3] Ukrainian: Праведники народів світу, romanized: Pravednyky narodiv svitu,[4] also Праведник світу, Pravednyk svitu[5]
  2. [b]
    Ukraine's Jewish population was historically large due to antisemitic Russian Empire policies that confined Jews to the Pale of Settlement—an area covering much of the empire’s non-Russian western lands, including Ukraine.[9]
  3. [c]
    Including then-Soviet Ukraine.
  4. [d]
    The population of Jews as recorded in mid-1941, just prior to the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, on the territory comprising modern-day Ukraine, including Crimea, which was administratively part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic at the time. In total, Jews and people of Jewish descent made up approximately five percent of the population of Soviet Ukraine.
  5. [e]
    The massacres were primarily carried out by Einsatzgruppen—Nazi SS paramilitary death squads—with the assistance of other Nazi and collaborators. The most substantial collaborationist forces were subordinated Ukrainian local police, military units, and other forces that generally consisted of some fascist anti-Soviet Ukrainian militias. While some Jews were deported from Ukraine to various concentration and death camps in occupied Poland, most were killed near their homes or at other locations in occupied Ukraine. Based on modern-day borders, those killed in Ukraine make up one in every four Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
  6. [f]
    Mostly to Central Asia and Siberia.
  7. [g]
    Individuals are included and grouped based on Yad Vashem's official list of Ukraine's Righteous. Individuals recognized as Righteous after 1 January 2022 are included and grouped based on official confirmation from various sources, including Ukrainian media reports. For Righteous recognized before 2022, name transliterations, nicknames, and notable family connections between individuals are shown as indicated by Yad Vashem's records. For those recognized after 2022, modern standard Ukrainian name transliterations are used while nicknames and family connections are shown if included in multiple sources or official announcements.[14]
  8. [h]
    The numerical code assigned by Yad Vashem after the nominated group or individual was officially given the title of Righteous and inscribed in Yad Vashem's records.
  9. [i]
    Years in which the individual(s) were officially given the title of Righteous and included in Yad Vashem's list.

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