Kurbanova-Pavlinkovich Nadezhda

Sixteen-year-old Nadezhda Pavlinkovich lived with her parents and sister in Mogilev (today Magilyou). In the 1930’s, she had studied at school with a Jewish girl, Lyuba Tsirulnikova. When the Germans captured the city on July 26, 1941, they established a ghetto there for the Jews of the area. When Lyuba’s family was murdered there on September 10, 1941, she happened to be outside the ghetto in pursuit of food. Some time later, Lyuba came across her former classmate Nadezhda Pavlinkovich. Nadezhda brought her home and hid her in a loft for one month. The rest of Nadezhda’s family did not know about it. When winter came it was no longer possible for her to stay in the loft. Then, Nadezhda provided Lyuba with her own birth certificate and a small cross and led Lyuba out of the city. Lyuba was able to survive under her new false identity in the remote village of Sukhari (Mogilev District). In contrast, Nadezhda was transferred to forced labor in Germany but also survived.
On January 24, 2000, Yad Vashem recognized Nadezhda Pavlinkovich-Kurbanova as Righteous Among the Nations.