Boyuk Yevdokia ; Husband: Ivan

Boyuk (Nimchuk), Yevdokiya Boyuk, Ivan Yevdokiya Nimchuk, in her 20s, lived with her parents, who were farmers, and her four siblings in the village of Mikuliczyn, district of Stanisławów (today Mykulychyn, Ivano-Frankivs’k District). On March 18, 1942, the Germans took all the Jews from the village as well as a few non-Jewish locals and executed them. A couple of days later, at dawn, nine-year-old Maks Privler, appeared at Yevdokiya’s door. He told her that her parents and sister had been murdered and that he and his father were among those to be killed, too. However, as soon as the first shots were fired, Maks's father had covered his son’s body with his own and Maks had fallen into the open grave unharmed. Later, when Maks recovered his senses, he climbed out of the mass of corpses and ran to the Nimchuks’ home to tell Yevdokiya about the fate of her family. Yevdokiya washed the Jewish child and changed his blood-spattered clothes. When Yevdokiya realized that her family remained suspect by the authorities, Maks left her home and went to the Stanisławów ghetto, where he had family. Yevdokiya also fled her home and wandered around until she found work in the village of Serafince (Serafyntsi), near the town of Horodenka, in the home of Ivan Boyuk, a widower and the father of two young children. Over time, Yevdokiya and Boyuk grew closer, married and she became a mother to his children. One day, Yevdokiya noticed Maks in the village, walking around collecting alms. Yevdokiya was pleased to see Maks and took him home and told her husband all about him. They then gave Maks some food and invited him to return whenever he wanted. And indeed, after he fled from the ghetto, Maks headed for the Boyuks’ home, where he was hidden in their granary for three months. Later, Maks declared that if the Boyuks had not taken him in, he would not have survived the war. Due to suspicious neighbors, Maks was compelled to leave the Boyuks’ home in late 1942. For a short while heworked as a cattle herder and then he joined the partisans. In the summer of 1943, Maks and some friends from the partisans visited the Boyuks, who even helped them in a spying mission. In the 1990s, Maks Privler immigrated to Israel. On June 18, 1998, Yad Vashem recognized Yevdokiya Boyuk (née Nimchuk) and Ivan Boyuk as Righteous Among the Nations.