Pran Tashchiyan

Pran Tashchiyan ( Armenian Պրան Թաշճյան , 1890 - unknown) survived the genocide of the Armenians in the First World War . Pran's first husband, her two children, and most of her relatives were murdered. After the war, she emigrated with Grigory Tashchiyan to Simferopol , the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , where they got married. Among the very mixed population of this region was a Russian family named Kucherenko. One of the daughters, Evgenia, was married to a Jew named David Goldberg and the two had two children.

When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa , David Goldberg was drafted into the Red Army . David's parents were murdered by the Nazis after the occupation of Simferopol. Evgenia feared for the safety of her children, who had been classified as half-Jews by the Nazis, and hid them with her neighbor Pran Tashchiyan. From February 1942 until the liberation in April 1944, the children were hidden with Pran and Grigori Tashchiyan. For this they were honored by Yad Vashem with the title Righteous Among the Nations .

Web links

• Pran Tashchiyan on the Yad Vashem website