Masukevich Irina

Masyukevich, Irina Irina Masyukevich lived with her three young children on the Dolgiy Les khutor, about four km from the village of Pavlovichi, district of Mogilev (today Paulavichy, Magilyou District). In late October 1941, after wandering around various villages looking for shelter, Vera Levina and her two sons, aged four and six, reached Masyukevich’s farm and asked for help. Levina, who had fled with her sons from the ghetto of Bobruysk (Babruysk), was welcomed inside. Despite her difficult financial situation, Masyukevich treated Levina and her children with compassion and shared her food with them. The sympathetic village head warned Masyukevich whenever house searches were imminent and thus she always managed to hide Levina and her sons in a specially constructed hole before the Germans arrived. Levina and her sons stayed with Masyukevich until the arrival of the Red Army, in late June 1944. After the war, Levina moved to Minsk, from where she kept in touch with Masyukevich. On January 19, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Irina Masyukevich as Righteous Among the Nations.