First housing project for elderly righteous launches in Belarus

Lyubov Volchek
In 1998, the now 90-year-old Lyubov Arkhiptsova-Volchek was recognised as a Righteous Among the Nations – Israel’s title for non-Jews it recognised for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust – for helping hide her 11-year-old Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Today Arkhiptsova-Volchek lives in abject poverty in Belarus.
“There’s no indoor toilet. The place is falling apart,” Jonny Daniels, a British-Israeli activist and head of the Warsaw-based From the Depths organisation, said about her home. “She wears coats indoors in winter because the place drops below freezing temperatures. She needs to find blocks of wood for heating. It’s a disgrace.”

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