Last Righteous Among Nations Resident in Israel Dies at 91
Translated & summarized from Mignews by baba
Yaroslava Levitskaya, the last person in Israel honored as Righteous Among the Nations, died in Haifa at 91. During the Holocaust, she secretly delivered food and medicine to Jews in the ghetto. In 1989, Yad Vashem recognized her, her mother, and grandfather for their life-saving actions. Levitskaya later became an Israeli citizen and settled in Haifa.
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- Yaroslava Levitskaya, the last Righteous Among the Nations resident in Israel, died in Haifa at 91.
- During the Holocaust, she secretly delivered food and medicine to Jews in the ghetto.
- Yad Vashem honored Levitskaya, her mother, and grandfather in 1989 for saving Jewish lives.
- Levitskaya was born in Zolochev, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1935.
- She became an Israeli citizen in 1995 and settled in Haifa.
- Her name is honored in Haifa's Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations.
Yaroslava Levitskaya, the last surviving individual in Israel recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, has passed away in Haifa at the age of 91. During the Holocaust, as a child in Nazi-occupied Poland, Levitskaya risked her life to secretly deliver food and medicine to Jews in the ghetto. Her actions, along with those of her mother and grandfather, were recognized by Yad Vashem in 1989 when they were bestowed the honorary title for saving Jewish lives.
Levitskaya was born in 1935 in Zolochev, then part of Poland and now in Ukraine. During World War II, her grandfather, Alexander, aided Jewish friends facing Nazi persecution. His daughter, Katarzyna, and granddaughter, Yaroslava, joined in these rescue efforts. Levitskaya would conceal provisions in her schoolbag to smuggle them into the ghetto, evading German and Ukrainian police patrols. The family continued their aid until the local Jewish community was annihilated in April 1943.
In addition to her ghetto aid, the Levitskaya family sheltered two Jews in 1943 and supplied food to a group hiding in a destroyed building's basement, all under the constant threat of Nazi reprisal. Levitskaya later became an Israeli citizen in 1995 and settled in Haifa. Her story is preserved in Israel, with her name honored in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations in Haifa's Ramat-Alon neighborhood. In February 2026, local schoolchildren celebrated her 91st birthday, during which she expressed her lifelong willingness to help Jews and her hope for world peace.
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