Andriievska Yevheniia

Yevheniia Andriievska lived with her husband Ivan and seven-year-old daughter Inna in a private house on the outskirts of Kyiv. The Andriievskyi family were friends with the Sokolov family. Hryhorii Sokolov worked as a shoemaker, his Jewish wife Holda (from the Kysliar family) was a tailor. They raised a daughter, Larysa, Inna's age, and were both deaf and dumb from birth.

With the beginning of the German-Soviet war, Ivan Andriievskyi was conscripted into the Red Army. German troops occupied the city of Kyiv on September 19, 1941, and on September 28, announcements of the occupation authorities appeared on the streets ordering all Jews to gather at the crossroads near the Babyn Yar tract the next day. After reading them, Hryhorii Sokolov felt danger and offered his wife and daughter to hide.

He brought Holda and her daughter to Yevheniia Andriievska, who agreed to shelter them. During the day, the Sokolov family did not come out of their hiding place so that the neighbors would not notice. Inna helped her mother hide her friend. The police periodically raided the streets of Kyiv in search of Jews. During raids, Yevheniia told her wards to sit in the cellar, and she covered the entrance with washed bed linen.

Once a week, Hryhorii, who lived nearby, visited his wife and daughter, sometimes bringing them food. At the beginning of June 1943, he was gone for a long time. Worried, Holda went in search of her husband. In the evening, she came to their apartment, where she wanted to wait for Hryhorii. However, the neighbors noticed the Jewish woman and informed the Nazis. Holda was arrested. The woman was walking along the road. Since she could not speak, she screamed. The occupiers did not like this, and she was shot near her home.

Larysa Sokolova lived in Andriievskyi family until the Nazis were expelled from the capital of Ukraine in November 1943. Later, her father's older brother Mykhailo Sokolov and his wife Yelyzaveta searched for her. Their family raised the girl in the post-war period. Larysa Sokolova continued to communicate with Yevheniia and Inna Andriievskyi.

In 1998, Yevheniia Andriievska was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations. Her daughter Inna Shapovalova (Andriievska), as well as Mykhailo and Hryhorii Sokolov, are recognized as the Righteous of Babyn Yar.