Last Righteous Among the Nations living in Israel dies at 91

Yaroslava Levytska, the last Righteous Among the Nations living in Israel, died at age 91 in Haifa. She helped save Jews during the Holocaust as a child and immigrated to Israel in 1995.

Yaroslava Levytska, the last Righteous Among the Nations residing in Israel, has died at the age of 91. She lived in Haifa and received Israeli citizenship in 1995. Levytska was born in 1935 in the city of Zolochiv, then in Poland. During World War II, together with her mother and grandfather, she helped Jews confined in the closed Zolochiv ghetto. Her grandfather Alexander, who had many Jewish friends, considered it his duty to help them. Yaroslava would bring food into the ghetto, hiding it in her school bag and evading German soldiers and Ukrainian police. The ghetto was liquidated in April 1943.