Fania, a Ukrainian Jew, was saved by Maria during the Nazi era. And now she returns the favor.

In 1942 Fania Rosenfeld Bass She's just a Jewish girl living in a small Ukrainian town, Rafalowka, occupied for over a year by Nazi troops. They were engaged in carrying out the criminal "Final Solution," the extermination of the Jewish people.

FANIA ROSENFELD

Fania watches helplessly as her entire family is murdered. Her parents, her sister, her brother. No one escapes the massacre except her. And she has nowhere to go. Until a neighbor, Maria Blyshchik, decides to host her in absolute secrecy and risking his life. Two years pass, until the liberation of Ukraine, in February 1944, and the beginning of a new domination over this unfortunate country: the Stalinist one. Fania, fortunately for her, has relatives in Israel and thanks to Maria he manages to do the only thing possible, that is, emigrate.

MARIA BLYSHCHIK

Eighty years later, the story of Fania and Maria repeats itself, but this time with the roles reversed, as told in this Espaitec's by Cecilia Sala. Fania is now gone, but one of her granddaughters, Sharon Bass, welcomed two of Mary's grandchildren to Israel, Lesia Orshoko, 36, and Alona Chugai, 47, fled Putin's onslaught. Thus returning a lifelong favor received almost a century ago. And by the will of fate and calendar, the girls' arrival in Israel from Ukraine, under bombardment by the Moscow army, comes precisely on the anniversary of Fania's death.

Source images: The Washington Post – Chagit Bass Nussbaum

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