Stepan Sopot
Stepan Sopot worked as a bakery manager in the village Vasilevichi, Gomel region. In September 1941, two weeks after the beginning of the occupation, the Jewish Yacov Nehinzon was born 1906, officer of Red Army, fleeing from German captivity, asked Stepan about shelter.
In this time, they agreed to host Yacov in their home.
After a while it was heard, that Sopot was hiding Jewish in his house, and after the the denunciation the German and local police came search. Yacov during the search hided fo to Russian stove and he wasn’t discovered. But police no one was found, Sopots remained under suspicion, especially after that the local government were informeinted about it, that Stepan engaged in clandestine activities.
Stepan was beat into unconsciousness and only thanks to the bribe his wife brought him to the hospital. In this time Yacov moved Philip Belomu’s house and to this wife Ulyana. In Jule 1942-second Stepan and Philip took Yacov out of the village and led him to a partisan detachment by Voroshilov, where Yacov stayed until the liberation of the territory in January 1944.
Yacov lived in Belarus after the warm until his death in 1970 he maintained friendly relations with the families of Sopots and Belum.
The first of January 1998 Yad Vashem.
In this time, they agreed to host Yacov in their home.
After a while it was heard, that Sopot was hiding Jewish in his house, and after the the denunciation the German and local police came search. Yacov during the search hided fo to Russian stove and he wasn’t discovered. But police no one was found, Sopots remained under suspicion, especially after that the local government were informeinted about it, that Stepan engaged in clandestine activities.
Stepan was beat into unconsciousness and only thanks to the bribe his wife brought him to the hospital. In this time Yacov moved Philip Belomu’s house and to this wife Ulyana. In Jule 1942-second Stepan and Philip took Yacov out of the village and led him to a partisan detachment by Voroshilov, where Yacov stayed until the liberation of the territory in January 1944.
Yacov lived in Belarus after the warm until his death in 1970 he maintained friendly relations with the families of Sopots and Belum.
The first of January 1998 Yad Vashem.
