Hryhoriy Tsybulko 

On the eve of the war the Oiberman family, Leontiy, Fanya, and their kids twelve-year-old Raisa and ten-year-old Yuriy, lived in the Bogachivka Jewish colony in Kryvoozersky district of Odesa region.

The area was occupied by German and Romanian troops in August 1941. The Oibermans hid in the steppe. They spent the night in haystacks, in the open air, looking for food in the fields, and even begging. Time passed and nights in the steppe became very cold. The family decided to turn for help to Ukrainian acquaintances from the village of Secretarka. Kindrat and Sofia Tsybulko, who lived with their son Hryhoriy, agreed to hide Yuriy.

Hryhoriy took the responsibility for the safety of the boy, hid him in a barn, in the attic of the house, and fed him. When the punitive forces appeared in the village, he hid Yuriy in the fields or in the abandoned farm buildings.

Kindrat convinced his neighbors to shelter Raisa. She was taken in by Yosyp and Hivronia Ozernyuk. They accepted her as their own daughter and cared about her no less than about their own ten-year-old daughter Polina. Yosyp managed to register Raisa as his niece. Many neighbors and acquaintances knew she was Jewish, but no one betrayed her and the Ozernyuks.

Having found safe places for their kids, the Oibermans left the village of Sekretarka and started hiding in the villages of Bogachevka and Sergeyevka where their friends lived.

In the spring of 1942, when the mass shootings stopped, the Oibermans took their children from rescuers and went to a forced labor camp for Jews, where they remained until the end of the Nazi occupation.

In early 1944, Fanya Oiberman died in the camp. All other Oibermans survived. After the escape of the Nazis from the area in March of 1944 they moved to Odesa, where they settled.

In the early 1950s, Hryhoriy Tsybulko and Polina Ozernyuk got married.

Survivors and rescuers stayed in touch for the lifetime and consider each other close relatives.

On October 27, 2008, Yad Vashem recognized Kindrat and Sofia Tsybulko and their son Hryhoriy, as well as Yosyp and Hivronia Ozernyuk as Righteous Among the Nations.

On July 4, 2012 Jewish Council of Ukraine recognized Hryhoriy Tsybulko and Polina Tsybulko (Ozernyuk) as Righteous of Ukraine.