Hrabovskyi Andrii, Maryna, Leonid and Mykola

Andrii and Maryna Hrabovskyi with their sons Leonid and Mykola lived in the village of Boliukhivka in the Vinnytsia region. During the Nazi occupation, in September 1942, Jewish sisters Liza Dukhno with her son Volodia and Sara Borysovska with her daughter Ester appeared in their farm. The women did not hide their origin – they immediately admitted that they had escaped from the Illintsi camp. Since spring, they had been wandering around the surrounding villages, hiding in the forests and begging for food from local villagers. On April 24, 1942, a mass execution of Jews by the Nazis took place in the urban-type settlement of Illintsi. That day, Lisa's husband and eldest son died. Then the woman with her younger son and sister decided to flee the city.

The Hrabovskyi family agreed to take in the fugitives, hiding them in a cowshed and a vegetable pit. In the winter, in order not to endanger their hosts, the Jewish women decided to join a partisan detachment and asked them to take care of only the boy and girl. The Hrabovskyis' teenage sons helped Sara and Liza reach the Borysiv Forest and join the local partisans.

All the Jews survived and, after the Nazis were expelled from the region, were reunited with their relatives. Later, they left for abroad.

In 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Andrii and Maryna Hrabovskyi as Righteous Among the Nations, and in 2000, their sons Leonid and Mykola also received this title.

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