Kulishov Ivan & Kulishova Konstantina ; Daughter: Anikeyeva Nina (Kulishova)

Kulishov, Ivan Kulishova, Konstantina Anikeyeva (Kulishova), Nina Ivan Kulishov, his wife, Konstantina, and their 18-year-old daughter, Nina, lived in the city of Voroshilovsk, Voroshilovgrad District (today Alchevs’k, Luhans’k District). The Germans conquered the city on July 13, 1942, and in January 1943, the Kulishov family hid 19-year-old Rakhil Vaynshelboym and her 14-year-old brother David in their home. The Vaynshelboym siblings had escaped from a labor camp for Jews on the outskirts of Voroshilovsk after their parents, Moisey and Genendlya, were murdered. They initially turned to a family friend for help but he was too frightened to invite them into his home. They then approached Kulishov, who knew their father as the senior physician in a hospital for treating tuberculosis. The Vaynshelboyms hid in the Kulishovs’ small house for ten days, then discovered that the battlefront was only 30 km east of there, along the Seversky Donets River, and they decided to try and reach the Soviet side. One night, dressed in Ukrainian peasants’ garb and accompanied by a local, the siblings crossed the frozen river and managed to reach the Soviets. After the war, the survivors settled in Kishinev, Moldova. In the 1990s Rakhil (by then Taksir) immigrated to Israel. On July 4, 1999, Yad Vashem recognized Ivan and Konstantina Kulishov and their daughter, Nina Anikeyeva, as Righteous Among the Nations.