Dauguvietienė Olga (Kuzmina); Daughter: Dubrovskaya Anastasija (Dauguvietytė); Daughter: Hanfman Dara (Dauguvietytė); Daughter: Dauguvietytė Nelli ; Son-In-Law: Hanfman Andrey

Dauguvietienė, Olga Hanfman-Dauguvietytė, Dara Hanfman, Andrey Dubrovsky-Dauguvietytė, Asya Dauguvietytė, Nelli On the eve of the German occupation of Lithuanian, Olga Dauguvietienė (née Kuzmina) lived in Kaunas, where she was well known as an actress in the local Russian theater. Her daughters, 23-year-old Asya (later Dubrovsky) and Nelli, 18, lived with her, while her third daughter, Dara Hanfman, lived in a separate apartment with her husband, Andrey Hanfman. The Dauguvietis family knew Ija Taubman, who was Dara’s close friend from their youth. In early October 1941, in one of the first Aktionen carried out by the Germans, Taubman fled the ghetto and came to the Hanfmans’ apartment. They hid her on the day of the Aktion, and the next day, urged her not to return to the ghetto, but to stay with them as long as necessary. Since the Hanfmans’ neighbors were known to be hostile towards Jews, it was risky for Taubman to stay there. Consequently, Dara decided to move her to the home of her mother and sisters, where she was warmly received. Although Dauguvietienė and her daughters had very meager means at their disposal, they shared what little they had with Taubman. Two months later, at the end of November 1941, Taubman decided she would no longer endanger her rescuers and she moved to Wilno (Vilnius), where she hid with Lithuanian friends of the Dauguvietis family. Later, Olga Dauguvietienė and her family gave periodic shelter to several Jewish children who fled from the Kaunas ghetto, among them five-year-old Margita Stender and seven-year-old Fruma Vitkin. After the war, Ija Taubman (later Pozdnjakoff) moved to the United States. On February 28, 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Olga Dauguvietienė, Nelli Dauguvietytė, Asya Dubrovsky, Dara Hanfman, and Andrey Hanfman, as Righteous Among the Nations.