Radan Domicelia ; Son: Anatoly ; Daughter: Matilda ; Daughter: Maria

Radan, Domitseliya Radan, Mariya Radan, Matilda Radan, Anatoliy During the war, Domitseliya Radan, a Pole, lived in Vinnitsa (today Vinnytsya). In the early days of the German occupation, Radan and her children, Mariya, Matilda, and Anatoliy joined the struggle against the Nazi regime. In the framework of their activities in the local underground, the Radans often afforded help to Jews and other fugitives. In late 1941, the Radans gave shelter in their home to Berta Vulinskaya who had fled Kiev in the hope of joining her family in Vinnitsa. She later joined the underground activities and became responsible for their contact with the activists in the neighboring town of Nemirov (Nemyriv). Rosa Seliterman, a well-known doctor in Vinnitsa, also found shelter in the Radans’ home. Later, Valya Bark, a Jewish girl that Anatoliy saved from a group of Jews marching not far from their home, joined Seliterman in hiding in the Radans’ basement. They remained hidden there for a few weeks. During this time, Seliterman helped Bark write a letter to the mayor to ask for a place for her in an orphanage. In the letter, Bark did not mention that she was Jewish and she was accepted into an institution where she stayed under a false name until the liberation in March 1944. In the meantime, Vulinskaya moved to the Romanian-controlled area, on Radan’s request. In 1942, the underground sent Matilda Radan to Zhmerinka (Zhmerynka). She went there with her friend Raya Litvin, who survived the war thanks to Matilda’s protection. Simultaneously in Vinnitsa, the Radans afforded shelter to Bronya Sheivekhman, a Ukrainian language teacher, who agreed to write propaganda leaflets against the Germans. A few months before the liberation, 15-year-old Liliya Sigal, whose father was with the partisans, arrived at the home of Mariya Radan (who did not live with her mother). She stayed there until her father collected her after the war. After the war, the survivors scattered across the SovietUnion. Some of them corresponded with the Radans and sent them letters of gratitude for their wartime actions. On November 28, 1994, Yad Vashem recognized Domitseliya Radan and her children, Mariya, Matilda, and Anatoliy, as Righteous Among the Nations.