Anishkievich Anna ; Daughter: Novakovskaya Lidia (Anishkievich); Daughter: Dziatkiewicz Yevgenia (Anishkievich); Daughter: Veronika ; Husband: Lukian

Anishkevich, Anna Anishkevich, Lukyan Novakovskaya (Anishkevich), Lidiya Dziatkiewicz (Anishkevich), Yevgeniya Anishkevich, Veronika Lea Lipets lived with her family in the town of Sarny, Wołyń (today Rivne District), where she became friendly with Anna Anishkevich, her husband, Lukyan, and their daughters, Lidiya, Yevgeniya and Veronika. On August 27-28, 1942, the Germans liquidated the ghetto in Sarny and led its inhabitants to the death pits. Lea, who managed to flee the massacre, arrived at the Anishkevich home and asked for help. Since Lea was known to many of the local inhabitants, the Anishkeviches decided to help her leave the town. Lea spent a week in a remote village with Anna Anishkevich’s sister, but fearing that her true identity might be discovered, she returned to Sarny. For two and a half years, from September 1942, the Anishkevich family hid Lea in their home together with a six-year-old Jewish child and another man, a refugee from Poland, whose identity and fate are unknown. Anna had taken the Jewish child from people who wanted to hand him over to the police, and brought him to her home in a sack on her back, his body covered with lice and sores. The lives of the hidden Jews and their rescuers were in constant danger, and Lea was always worried that the Anishkevich family members would be found out and executed. Nonetheless, Lea was looked after devotedly by her rescuers, despite all the hardships and risks involved. After the war, Lea immigrated to Israel and in 1990 visited Yevgeniya, one of her rescuers, who had moved to Kraków, Poland. On September 4, 1991, Yad Vashem recognized Anna and Lukyan Anishkevich and their daughters, Lidiya Novakovskaya, Yevgeniya Dziatkiewicz and Veronika Anishkevich, as Righteous Among the Nations.