Ziniuk Pavlo & Tatiana

Zinyuk, Pavlo Zinyuk, Tatyana Nosal, Olga Pavlo Zinyuk and his wife, Tatyana, were well-to-do farmers living in the village of Zacynek, not far from the town of Maciejów, Wołyń (today Lukiv, Volyn’ District). Before the occupation, the Zinyuks had business relations with the Biber family, who lived in Maciejów. After the Germans conquered the area and began massacring all the Jews there, Jakov Biber and his wife, Eva, turned to the Zinyuks and asked for temporary shelter. From August 1941, until the liberation of the town by the Red Army, in July 1944, the couple mostly hid in the forested area around Maciejów, but frequented the Zinyuks’ home at night, where they were always afforded a place to rest, wash, eat, and receive clean clothes. After the war, Biber recalled that the Zinyuks treated them very well, and did everything for them that they possibly could. During the war, Olga Nosal, a poor woman with two young children whose husband had been conscripted into the Polish army, in 1939, and never returned, also helped the Bibers. Throughout the period of the occupation, her home in Zacynek was also always open to them and she also shared her meager food rations with them. After the war, the Bibers immigrated to the United States, from where they maintained contact with their wartime rescuers. On August 21, 1990, Yad Vashem recognized Pavlo and Tatyana Zinyuk, and Olga Nasal, as Righteous Among the Nations.