Sled Grigori ; Son: Grigori

Sled, Grigoriy Sled, Grigoriy Sugak, Mr. Grigoriy Sled and his son, Grigoriy, lived in the village of Petrovo in the district of Kirovograd (today Petrove, Kirovohrad District). The Germans conquered the area in August 1941 and in December 1942 the Sleds offered shelter to David Golshtein and his 16-year-old son Yakov in their home. Since the 1930s, Golshtein had worked as a glazier in the village and he was on good terms with some of the residents, among them the Sleds. Golshtein and his son escaped from a labor camp in the nearby village of Lyubimovka (Lyubymivka) after Golshtein’s wife and younger son perished. The father and son hid alternately in the Sleds’ home and in the home of their elderly neighbor, who was known as “Old Man Sugak” among the locals. When the winter snow subsided, the Golshteins and their rescuers dug a bunker in the Sleds’ garden where initially Golshtein and his son and later just Golshtein hid. Yakov, who before the war had studied at a Ukrainian school and spoke the local language fluently, preferred to pose as a local and found work as a hired hand in a nearby kolkhoz. His income eased the Sleds’ financial situation. The area was liberated in September 1943, and after the war, the survivors settled in the adjacent town of Aleksandrovka (Oleksandrivka). They maintained their friendship with the Sleds and Sugak, who died a short while after the liberation. Yakov Golshtein later immigrated to Israel. On January 21, 1999, Yad Vashem recognized Grigoriy Sled, his son, Grigoriy Sled, and Mr. Sugak, as Righteous Among the Nations.