Ceremony awarding the medal of RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS posthumously to YEVGENIA ZAMOROKO-LYSENKO of Ukraine Accepting on her behalf, her son NIKOLAY ZAMOROKO September 6, 2007

Account of the Rescue Masha Spivak lived with her parents and two siblings in the town of Kherson in the south of Ukraine, which was occupied by the Germans on August 19, 1941. In the following month, Masha's family members were killed and she was left alone. She decided to conceal that she was Jewish, but to do that she needed an official document, an ID card. In October she went to the office of the local militia and stood in line. Unexpectedly, her Russian literature teacher Klavdia Sopova came up to her, and Masha explained her plain. Klavdia advised her to avoid the authorities but instead to go in the evening to the apartment she shared with physics teacher Yevgenia Lysenko. During the occupation both teachers worked in the population registration department, which was under the police command. All the government books recording information about each building's inhabitants went through their hands. Klavdia and Yevgenia wanted to change the registration in the house book in which Masha lived prior to the war, but it had not yet been brought to their office. Somehow, Masha managed to get her house book, and then Klavdia and Yevgenia changed the registration in it -- writing that Masha had been adopted by the Jewish Spivak family but that she was originally Bulgarian. Based on the revised registration in the house book, Masha received an identification certificate hat helped her find a job as a cleaner in a German military hospital located in the town. At the end of each workday, Masha returned to the apartment of the teachers Klavdia and Yevgenia to eat and sleep. In April 1942, the hospital where Masha worked was moved east-ward and she lost her job. She was afraid if she started wandering around town looking for work, old acquaintances might recognize her. Her rescuers then advised her to enroll in forced labor in Germany. She did that and remained in Germany until being liberated by the Americans. In 1948, she emigrated to Israel and lost contact with her rescuers. Only after a cousin of Masha's went to Israel in 2000 and reported to her about the deteriorating health condition of the rescuer Yevgenia, did Masha turn to Yad Vashem.

Ceremony awarding the medal of RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS WELCOME Sara J. Bloomfield Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum REMARKS Irena Steinfeldt Director, Righteous Among the Nations Department, Yad Vashem The Honorable Ben Cardin United States Senator from Maryland Fred S. Zeidman Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council His Excellency Sallai Meridor Ambassador of Israel to the United States AWARD PRESENTATION Nikolay Zamoroko accepting on behalf of Yevgenia Zamoroko-Lysenko NATIONAL ANTHEMS Cantor Rachel Hersh Epstein Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation, Bethesda, Maryland CANDLELIGHTING In the Hall of Remembrance RECEPTION In Classroom B, Lower Level ******* UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 100 Raul Wallenberg Place, SW Washinigton, DC, 20024-2126 | ushmm.org