Nina Bogorad (Subotenko)

Peasants Feodosiy Subotenko, his wife Maria and daughter Nina lived in the village of Andrushyvka, Zhytomyr Region. In July 1941, the Germans occupied this region, and in March 1942, a wounded soldier who had escaped from captivity knocked on the door of the Subotenko family’s house.
He called himself Ivan and asked to let him spend the night. The next day, Feodosius and his family realized that it would be difficult for Ivan to continue his journey because of the wound he had received. They offered him to stay in their house until he recovered.
Soon the soldier got to know the villagers and even organized an underground group to blow up the railway used by the Germans. Ivan was sleeping in the house of the Subotenks, and one day he spoke in his sleep. His rescuers, who heard his mumbling, realized that he was speaking Yiddish. When they asked the soldier who he really was, he admitted that his name was Yakiv (Yanya) Bogorad, that he was a Jew, born in Kyiv. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union, he went to the front, leaving his parents and sister Rachel in Kyiv. Yakov did not know anything about their future fate and was very worried about it. He had a Slavic appearance and spoke Ukrainian perfectly. Although he had no documents, the Subotenkas agreed to leave him in their home.
Bohorad soon became the commander of a partisan unit operating in the area of the villages of Andrushyvka and Vchoraishe, but the soldiers of the unit knew him only as Ivan Khrystiuk. He returned to his real name after the liberation of Ukraine from Nazi occupation in early 1944.
After the war, in 1946, Yakov Bogorad married Nina Subotenko. Nina and Yakov were together until the death of her husband.
ON JULY 28, 1998, YAD VASHEM RECOGNIZED FEODOSIYA AND MARIA SUBOTENKO AS RIGHTEOUSNESSES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
ON JULY 5, 1999, YAD VASHEM RECOGNIZED NINA BOHORAD (SUBOTENKO) AS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.