Korablikov — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

A short time after the Germans invaded Russia, Makar, the younger son of Jevdokija Korablikova (born in 1915), marries a young Jewish woman, Bluma Trotsky. Their son, Ilja, is born in 1941. Jevdokija lives with her eldest daughter, Fetinija, in Vilna. When the city was occupied on the 23^rd of June, 1941, the Germans began to hound the Jews and exterminate them, Bluma and her baby son hid at the home of non-Jewish relatives. Makar was a communist in the anti-Nazi underground from the beginning of the occupation so he was away from home. His activities included going into the ghetto frequently to keep in close contact with the underground in the ghetto and smuggling some of the members out of there. In the winter of 1941-42, Bluma was caught outside and taken to the Ponary forest together with other Jews, where she was exterminated. She just managed to hand the baby over to his aunt and grandmother. One of her friends in the ghetto was Batya Kovarski who used to visit the Korablicov's house often to see Bluma. In December, 1942 Batya gave birth to a baby boy in the ghetto; he was hidden in the attic for the first few months of his life because of the ban on delivering Jewish babies in the ghetto. The baby was in constant danger so she asked Fetinija and her mother if they would take care of the baby. They agreed. Since Fetinija had recently married she could pretend that she had been pregnant and that it was her baby. Only then, in April 1943, was the baby taken out of the ghetto to the Korablicov's home and registered as Sergei, Fetinija's son.

So, in the spring of 1943, Fetinija and her mother looked after two babies, two-year old Ilja and the infant, Sergei. When the ghetto was liquidated in September, 1943, Makar managed to get Batya Kovarski out of the ghetto and transferred to the partisans unit in Markov. She was killed in the battle near Lake Narutch. Makar was captured by the Gestapo at the end of 1943, tortured and then executed. The two children remained with their saviors until after the war. Until 1953, Sergei was registered as Fetinija's son and knew nothing about his real mother. Makar was awarded the Hero's Medal of the USSR, the highest medal of bravery in the country.

In September, 2005 Jevdokija Korablikova and her daughter, Fetinija, were recognized as Righteous among the Nations.

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