Pelin, George
Pelin, Varvara
George and Varvara Pelin were farmers living in the village of Malayeshty (today Mălăieşti), not far from Tiraspol, in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Ukraine (from 1940 in the Moldavian SSR [today Moldova]). The area was included in Transnistria, since September 1941, and was under Romanian control. In March 1944, the Pelins gave shelter in their home to a stranger, Lev Bruter, a young Jew who was a native of the town of Causanii Vechi in Bessarabia, Romania. Bruter came to the Pelin home after fleeing from a convoy of young Jews being...
Pereplechinski, Vladimir
Pereplechinskaya, Mariya
Vladimir Pereplechinski, his wife, Mariya, and their four young children lived in the town of Grigoriopol in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Ukraine (from 1940 in the Moldavian SSR [today Moldova]), which was invaded by the Germans and Romanians early in July 1941. One day in September of that year, after the area was included in Transnistria, under Romanian control, Mariya brought home a young girl, who was not from the village. She introduced her to her children as Klavdiya and told them she would be staying in their...
Zavadskaya, Anisia
Zavadskiy, Henrich
Zavadskiy, Mikhail
Anisia Zavadskaya and her two sons, Henrich and Mikhail, lived in Rybnitsa in the Autonomous Soviet Republic of Moldova. Lev and Polina Goldshtein and their nine-year-old son, David, were among their neighbors. In September 1941, after the occupation of the area by the Germans and the Romanians, all the Jews of the city were deported to the newly established ghetto, including the Goldshteins. The Goldshtein family was interned in the ghetto from September 1941 until February 1944. During that entire period, Anisia Zavadskaya...
Strashnaya, Mariya
Strashnyi, Ivan
Strashnaya, Kseniya
Mariya Strashnaya, in her 60s, lived in the village of Beleavinţi, in Bessarabia, Romania (from 1940 in the Moldavian SSR [today Moldova]), with her son Ivan, her daughter-in-law Kseniya, and her two young granddaughters. Before the war, the grocery store in the village was owned by the Gurvits family, and Mariya and her family shopped there. After the Germans and Romanians invaded the Soviet Union and occupied the area, which again came under Romanain control, Benyamin Gurvits, the former owner of the grocery store, appealed to...
Morozovskiy, Vitaliy
Morozovskiy, Aleksandra
Vitaliy and Alexksandra Morozovskiy lived in the village of Mokra near Rybnitsa, in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Ukraine, which from 1940, was in the Moldavian SSR (today Moldova), and worked as teachers in the local school. Before the war, one of their pupils was Grigoriy Farber, a Jewish boy who lived with his parents in the nearby Jewish kolkhoz, Der Shtern. In September 1941, the area was include in Transnistria under Romanian control. In December 1941, Farber appeared at the Morozovskiy home and asked for shelter....
Nedelyak, Ivan
Nedelyak, Anna
Ivan and Anna Nedelyak (both of Bulgarian origin) lived with their two children in the Tiraspol suburb called Kirpichnaya Slobodka, (in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Ukraine, from 1940 in the Moldavian SSR [today Moldova]), which was occupied by the Germans and Romanians in July 1941, and which was included in Transnistria, under Romanian control, since September 1941. In December of that year, Anna traveled to Odessa, capital of Transnistria, to visit her relatives. On her way back to Tiraspol, two boys sat next to her. They introduced...
Marchenko, Ivan
Marchenko, Fekla
Marchenko, Leontyi
Marchenko, Nina
Marchenko, Nikita
Marchenko, Tatyana
The brothers Ivan and Nikita Marchenko lived with their families in Rybnitsa (today Rîbniţa) in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in Ukraine, which, in 1940, became the Moldavian SSR (today Moldova). From September 1941, Rybnitsa was included in Transnistria, under Romanian control. During the war, Ivan and his wife, Fekla, lived in the same apartment with their married son Leontyi, his young wife Nina and their baby daughter. Nikita, the younger...
Benya, George
Benya, Lyuba
The Russian Orthodox priest, George Benya, lived with his wife Lyuba in the village of Varatic (Rişcani County, Bessarabia). After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, many Jews tried to flee from the front in the hope of saving themselves. A family of five was among those who fled eastward – the father Avraham, the mother Riva and the brothers Zelman David and Shabs. They fled from their village of Duruitoarya Veche, Rişcani County, but were forced to turn back after the area was occupied by the Germans and the Romanians. On the outskirts of the village of Varatic,...