The ceremony of awarding of Ukrainians - Righteous Among the Nations took place on February 20 in the building of Regional Jewish Charitable Foundation “Hesed-Arieh”, - informs Christian Megaportal  invictory.org.co with reference to RISU.  Medals and diplomas were presented by Plenipotentiary  and Extraordinary Ambassador of the State of Israel in Ukraine Zina Kalaj-Klajtman. Only one Ukrainian woman Iryna Maksymiv-Saik personally received her award. For many months her family had been hiding 16 Jews. Another 8 medals were presented to the relatives of the Righteous Among the Nations- their children or grandchildren. In her speech Ambassador of Israel underlined that far not all names of Ukrainians who had been saving Jews during WWII, were found and marked.

She said :” Unfortunately, time wipes off memory… Not all names are disclosed and we should hurry up to do that…”