A new street in honor of Kharkiv, the Righteous Among the Nations of the World, Alexandra Belova, appeared in Kharkov.
The decision was made today, October 17, at the session of the Kharkiv City Council, the press service of the mayor informs.
The street is located between the street. Tobolsk and st. August 23, she was previously nameless.
In addition, the session was renamed part of the street.. Sidor Kovpak (№3-33, 8, from the street Bortkiewicz to the street Shevchenko) in the alley Bortkiewicz.
Journalist Alexander Belova worked in the newspaper "Tvarinnittvo Ukraine". At the beginning of the war, she and her 11-year-old daughter remained in occupied Kharkov. In 1942, a woman saved from the ghetto the children of her neighbor, Rosalia Arinberg, 11-year-old Elena and a three-year-old Ira.. In the 20-degree frost she overcame almost 40 km and brought them to her house by sledging.
Younger Iru took to her housekeeper Arinberg - Zina Logvinenko. Alexandra Belova hid Rosa herself and her eldest daughter Lena. The girl was warned not to go to the window, but one day she looked out onto the street, and one of her neighbors saw her. Then the family decided to take the girl to the house opposite, to the pre-war employee of Rosa Arinberg - Galina Zozulevich. There, Alexandra Belova met with the commander of an underground partisan group and became secretary in the detachment..
When someone reported that Zozulevich was hiding a Jewish child, Belova was able to issue them forged documents, took out a passport in the name of a Russian - Ksenia Borisovna Lopatinskaya - and pasted a photo of Rosa Arinberg into it. Having received a passport, the mother and daughter left Kharkov.
In March 1942, under a denunciation to the Gestapo about the connection with partisans and the rescue of a Jewish family, Alexander Belov was arrested. A woman was shot on the outskirts of Kharkov. Rosa Arinberg saved by her lived to be 90 years old. Her youngest daughter lives in Germany, and the eldest, Elena Scherbakova, died in Kharkov last year..
September 20, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Alexander Belov as the Righteous Among the Nations.
She is the only Kharkov citizen of the righteous of the world who was shot by the Germans for saving the Jewish family..
"This is a feat of a man who, at the cost of his life, saved others. This is a tribute to memory. Kharkov honors its heroes. Unfortunately, this point was missed earlier, but we corrected our mistake.. I think we should have named the street in honor of Aleksandra Belova a long time ago, and now one of the streets will get her name, "said the first deputy mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov..