She was 100 years old: Righteous Among the Nations Lidia Savchuk — a Ukrainian whom both Hitler’s Nazism and Putin’s Rashism wanted to wipe off the face of the earth

At the beginning of November 2025, in Lucerne, Switzerland, Lidiya Klimovna Savchuk quietly passed away — one of the last living Ukrainian Righteous Among the Nations. She was 100 years old. Not a politician, not a media star — an ordinary woman at first glance, who once said "yes" to another's life in her youth and lived with that choice for the rest of her life.

Bright Shadow of a Century

If we lay out her path in dry lines, we get an almost textbook list: 1925 — birth in Vinnytsia. 1941–1944 — German occupation, underground help to Jews and Soviet soldiers. 1950s — family, children, Kyiv. January 2, 1995 — recognition as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. February 2022 — a new war, this time Putin's-Russian. April 2022 — evacuation from Kyiv. November 2025 — death in Lucerne.

But between these dates — the concrete basements of Vinnytsia, the attic where a soldier was hidden, a cry at the market where Lidiya was once beaten for helping her brother's Jewish friend, night raids, a communal apartment in Kyiv, an evacuation car under the wail of sirens, and a Swiss lake where the Alps are peacefully reflected.

This chain is her life.
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