Two families in Lviv got the title "Righteous Among the Nations"

On Thursday, January 30, two more families who saved Jews during World War II were awarded in Lviv. They were given the honorary title of "Righteous Among the Nations" by the Israeli Yad Vashem Memorial Center.

It was reported by the correspondent of Novyny.LIVE.

Who got the title

Veronika Festryga received one of the awards. She said that her great-great-grandmother Kateryna saved a 9-year-old Jewish girl. Later, the girl changed her name and moved to Israel. Later, she wrote her memoirs about those times. 

"For me, this award is an opportunity to touch my past, my family. It is a motivation and a reminder of humanity," Veronika says.

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky noted that there are officially more than 2,700 Righteous Among the Nations in Ukraine, but in reality, there are many more.

"Unfortunately, we do not know all the facts. But we are constantly looking for new information. And every year we find new families of the Righteous Among the Nations," the Ambassador added.

Earlier, we told the story of Yurii Storozhynskyi, who was born in 1941 in Brody in the Ukrainian-Jewish family. His life was forever changed by the tragedy of the Holocaust. At the age of two, he lost his parents and was left as an orphan.

We also wrote that on January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Lviv, the townspeople gathered at the memorial to commemorate the people murdered by the Nazis.