Kubit Vladimir

Kubit, Vladimir Kubit, Konstantin Kubit, Mariya Kubit, Anna The Kubit family lived in the town of Radziwiłłów, Wołyń District (today Radyvyliv, Rivne District). Following the German takeover, Konstantin Kubit, his wife, Mariya, their daughter Anna, and his younger brother Vladimir decided to help Jews in their town. Vladimir built a hiding place in the shack next to their home, where tens of Jews hid over the course of the occupation, including the three-member Kiperman family, six-member Treibich family, the Weinsteins, Semigrans, Yaroslavskis, Weisers, Zaces, and others. The Kubits looked after their wards for months on end, providing them with food, drink and clothes. They were driven solely by humanitarian motives. Among the Jews that owe their lives to Vladimir were also four families from the ghetto in nearby Brody, whom he smuggled out and then hid on his farm. Vladimir’s rescue deeds eventually caught the attention of the authorities and for the last few months before the liberation he was forced to go into hiding with his charges. After the war, the survivors left the Soviet Union but before they did so, nine of them wrote a letter expressing their gratitude to Vladimir and his family, and had it stamped by a notary. Members of the Kubit family guarded the letter for many years and it is now preserved in the Yad Vashem archives in Jerusalem. On September 29, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Vladimir Kubit, Konstantin and Mariya Kubit and their daughter, Anna Kubit, as Righteous Among the Nations.