Yaroslava Lovitska, Righteous Among the Nations, Has Died

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Yaroslava Lovitska was born in Poland in 1935, and at the age of six she helped her grandfather bring food and medicine to Jews in the Zloczow ghetto. She slipped past the Nazi guards, and the family hid 25 Jews in a bunker in the courtyard of their home.

Lovitska immigrated to Israel in the 1990s and lived in Haifa. She once said: "It was important to me to bring food to the children there. In the small school bag I put, among other things, bread and potatoes".

Lovitska died in Haifa at the age of 91, two months before her 92nd birthday. Her funeral was held at the Tel Regev cemetery, attended by residents, educators and students from Haifa. Mayor Yona Yahav eulogized her: "Thank you on behalf of the generations who were able to live because of you".