Dzhyvulski Vasili & Dzhyvulskaya Marina ; Daughter: Pavlishina Anastasia (Dzhyvulskaya); Daughter: Dzhyvulskaya Yekaterina ; Daughter: Kuzevich Pavlina (Dzhyvulskaya)

Dzhivulskiy, Vasiliy Dzhivulskaya, Marina Pavlishin (Dzhivulskaya), Anastasiya Dzhivulskaya, Yekaterina Kuzevich (Dzhivulskaya), Pavlina Vasiliy and Marina Dzhivulskiy, farmers, lived in the village of Rublino (today Rublyn), near the town of Potok Zloty (Zolotyy Potik) in the district of Tarnopol (Ternopil’) District. Their daughters Anastasiya, Yekaterina, and Pavlina lived with them and their married daughter Hanka lived in a neighboring village. A few months after the beginning of the German occupation on July 3, 1941, Ita Kirschenbaum approached Dzhivulskiy, who had earlier worked for her father, and asked him if he would be prepared to hide her and her family in his home in exchange for payment. The Dzhivulskiys, who were Sabbatarians, willingly agreed to do so. One night, Kirschenbaum, her infant daughter Tsipora, Ita’s brother Getzel Strauber, his wife, Malka, their daughter, Genia Tova, Ita’s sister, Sosia Petrover, her husband, Shaya, and their two children, Esther and Miriam and Michael Ehrlich, Ita’s brother-in-law, arrived at the Dzhivulskiys’ home. They were later joined by Avraham Kupferman, his wife, Frima, and their two children. The 14 Jews were hidden in a hiding place in the stable and the members of the Dzhivulskiy family brought them food in a bucket and did everything they could to make their wards comfortable. As the conditions in the hideaway were not good for the baby, 18-month-old Tsipora was taken inside the Dzhivulskiys’ home and introduced to people as Hanka’s daughter. The Dzhivulskiys used the money paid to them by their charges to buy provisions for them. As purchasing such an increased amount of food would have aroused suspicions in the village, the Dzhivulskiys regularly journeyed to a nearby town to buy food for their hidden wards. Six months before the liberation, the Jews’ money ran out and they started to suffer from hunger. The Dzhivulskiys then went out at night into the fields to pick corn and bring it to theirwards. In March 1944, when the front approached the village and the Germans were swarming through, the Dzhivulskiys provided the Jews with a supply of bread and dry fruit to keep them from starving, sparing them the need to emerge from their hideaway. After the liberation on April 14, 1944, the survivors left the Soviet Union and the Dzhivulskiys were exiled to Siberia. In the 1960s, Ita Kirschenbaum, who had by then moved to Israel, renewed contact with members of the Dzhivulskiy family. On December 19, 1974, Yad Vashem recognized Vasiliy and Marina Dzhivulskiy as Righteous Among the Nations. On June 11, 2001, Yad Vashem recognized Anastasiya Pavlishin, Yekaterina Dzhivulskaya, and Pavlina Kuzevich, as Righteous Among the Nations.