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2022-07-04T20:22:45.845Z


Alexander Slobodianik, 94, who saved a Jewish mother and mother during the Holocaust, has been forced to live in recent months, since the Russian invasion, as a refugee in his country. In a recent letter, he turned to the Jewish people for help, after he and his family were left homeless. "I did not believe that in my life I would see fascists in my home again," he said before his death


Asked for help from the Jewish people: A Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations who was expelled from his home by the Russians passed away

Alexander Slobodianik, 94, who saved a Jewish mother and mother during the Holocaust, has been forced to live in recent months, since the Russian invasion, as a refugee in his country.

In a recent letter, he turned to the Jewish people for help, after he and his family were left homeless.

"I did not believe that in my life I would see fascists in my home again," he said before his death

Eli Ashkenazi

04/07/2022

Monday, 04 July 2022, 19:10 Updated: 23:12

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In the video: Alexander (Sashko) Alekseevich Slobodianik, a Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations deported from his home by the Russian army (Alexander Slobodianik Family Archive)

In Ukraine, Alexander (Sashko) Alekseevich Slobodianik passed away on Tuesday.

Slobodianik, 94, was a Righteous Among the Nations.

During the Holocaust, he and his parents saved a Jewish boy and mother.

After the beginning of the Russian occupation of Ukraine, Slobodianik was forced to flee his home.

The last few months he has lived as a refugee in his country and died destitute and depressed.

In the last letter he wrote a few weeks ago, he asked the Jewish people for help after he and his family were left homeless and destitute.



During World War II, the Slobodianik family - Alexander and his parents, Alexei and Matriona, lived in the town of Bershad, which was occupied by the Germans and Romanians in July 1941.

Father Alexei, who worked at a local restaurant, would pass on to the underground information he would hear from Romanian government officials who would come to the restaurant.

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Alexander (Sashko) Slobodianic (Photo: Official Website, Alexander Slobodianic Family Archive)

A ghetto was established in the city for Jews, about 4,300 of them residents and another 20,000 deportees from Romania.

Those leaving the ghetto were facing the death penalty.

One day Alexei saw a Jewish boy outside the ghetto and he called him.

The boy, David Gershengorn, who spoke Yiddish and Romanian and did not understand his language, was startled.

When he realized that the older man wanted to help him, he accompanied him.

Alexei Slobodianik took the boy to the bath and barber and then bought him clothes and gave him a meal like which he had not eaten for many months.



Alexei told his wife and son that the Jewish boy would live with them and so it was.

David Gershgoren was a family member at the Slobodianik House and over time learned Ukrainian.

Dora, Gershgorn's mother remained in the ghetto and on several occasions the two boys, David and Sashko, managed to sneak in and deliver food and clothes to her.

One day the mother managed to escape from the ghetto and the Slobodianik family took care of housing their relatives who lived in a secluded village.

Of all the Jews in the Bershad ghetto, only 11,000 survived.



Meanwhile, Father Alexei worked in the underground, printing and distributing leaflets in and around the city.

After his arrest, Jewish residents of the ghetto collected gold rings to bribe one of the officers who did release him from detention.

He later joined a partisan unit and was killed after being seriously wounded in one of the operations in which he participated.

At the end of the war, David and his mother reunited and returned to Moldova.

In the 1970s they immigrated to the United States.

Over the years, the two families kept in touch.

In 1993, members of the Slobodianik family were awarded the Righteous Among the Nations of Yad Vashem.

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He saw a Jewish boy outside the ghetto, bought him clothes and housed him in his home (Photo: Official website, Family Archive of Alexander Slobodianik)

"My parents and I saved the lives of Jews while risking our lives."

Slobodianic with Certificate of the Righteous Among the Nations (Photo: Official Website, Alexander Slobodianic Family Archive)

For the past decades, Sashko Slobodianik has lived in a village in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

When the Russians invaded the area, he, his daughter, son-in-law and grandson hid in the basement of their house without water, electricity and gas and with little food.

The Russian army took control of the area with heavy fire and shelling.

After several weeks, during a ceasefire, they fled the village to an area controlled by Ukraine, leaving all their property behind.

Sashko made sure to take with him the medal and certificate awarded to him when he was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations.



When Shimon Briman, a journalist and historian, an expert on Israel-Ukraine relations, learned about the case, he contacted Slobodianik and, after talking to him several times, told Rabbi Moshe Asman, the chief rabbi of Ukraine.

According to him, Rabbi Asman went specifically to meet Slobodianik and gave him money for rent for five months.

At the same time, Bremen also raised financial aid from Adv. Shlomo Asraf.



Slobodianik died on Tuesday while fleeing his country, homeless.

Breiman said that before his death he was depressed in the face of the situation.

"I did not believe that in my life I would see fascists in my home again," he wrote shortly before his death.



Along with the gratitude he expressed in the letter, he also asked the Jewish people for help: "I spent my life in my homeland, in a village in the Kherson region, among wonderful people, in the arms of my loving family. I could not stay under the occupation of the Russian occupiers? I could not stay under the occupation of the Russian army because they destroy houses and cars on their way and have no pity on children, women or the elderly. In 1993 I was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. "My parents and I saved the lives of Jews while risking our lives, and now that we have left our home, I am asking for the help of the Jewish people to obtain housing," he wrote.

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