Shmalyi Arsenti & Yevdokia ; Daughter: Korchak Anna (Shmalyi)

Shmaliy, Arsentiy Shmaliy, Yevdokiya Korchak (Shmaliy), Anna Anna Shmaliy and her parents, Arsentiy and Yevdokiya, were residents of the village of Bagrinovtsy, Vinnitsa District (today Bahrynivtsi, Vinnytsya). In summer 1942, Anna was told that a new medical nurse, a young woman who was an escaped prisoner of war, had found work in the local hospital. Anna decided to meet the woman in the hope of discovering something about the fate of her brother, who was also serving in the army. The woman she met was thin, pale, and dressed in a uniform and tatty boots. During their conversation, Anna learned that the woman’s name was also Anna and that she was sleeping on the grounds of the hospital because she had no place to call home. Shmaliy then returned to her parents and proposed that they afford the new nurse shelter in their home. The following day, Anna Stolovitskaya moved in with the Shmaliys, and introduced herself as a Ukrainian from Poltava but refrained from telling them about her family and life before the war. Initially, the local residents treated Stolovitskaya compassionately, until someone spread a rumor that she was Jewish. Stolovitskaya, who didn’t have identity papers, did not deny being Jewish and told the Shmaliys that she would leave their home in order not to endanger them. However, the Shmaliys would not let her go and instead they prepared a hiding place for her in the granary on their property, where Stolovitskaya hid from June 1942 to December 1943. At the end of 1943, some partisans visited the Shmaliys’ home and Stolovitskaya joined them and left her rescuers. The Shmaliys only discovered after the war that Stolovitskaya had been sent to a camp in Germany, escaped en route, and had worked as a forced laborer in a factory in Germany until the war ended. When she returned to Ukraine, she renewed contact with the Shmaliys. On September 29, 1996, Yad Vashem recognized Anna Korchak and her parents, Arsentiy and Yevdokiya Shmaliy, asRighteous Among the Nations.