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Nikolay Zamoroko (C) joined by the Ambassador of Israel to the US, Sallai Meridor (L) and surrounded by Holocaust surivors accepts the Medal of Righteous Among The Nations posthumously for his mother Yevgenia Zamoroko-Lysenko, 6 September, 2007 at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
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JERUSALEM (EJP)---Yevgenia Zamoroko-Lysenko, a citizen from Ukraine, will be posthumously honored by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations at a ceremony on Thursday at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
It is the first time that the US Museum hosts such an event.
Zamoroko-Lysenko’s son Nikolay Zamoroko, a resident of Maryland, will receive the medal and certificate on his mother’s behalf.
During the Holocaust, Yevgenia Zamoroko-Lysenko lived in Kherson, southern Ukraine. She and her roommate, Klavdia Sopova, helped Masha Spivak obtain false identity papers and find a job.
They also allowed her to live in their apartment.
In April 1942, the hospital at which Masha worked was relocated. Now jobless, Masha was afraid to venture around town looking for another job for fear of being recognized as a Jew.
Yevgenia and Klavdia persuaded her to present herself for forced labor in Germany.
Masha worked in Germany until liberation in 1945. She moved to Israel in 1948, and passed away in 2001.
In 1963, Yad Vashem embarked upon a worldwide project to grant the title of Righteous Among the Nations to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
A public committee headed by a retired Supreme Court justice was set up, which is responsible for granting the title.
This project is the only one of its kind in the world that honors, using set criteria, the actions of those individuals who rescued Jews during the war.
Around 22,000 people have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations as of today.
