Klavdiya Gerasimchik lived with her parents Pavel and Lyubov in the village of Szubków (now Shubkiv, Ukraine). She had two siblings, Galina and Nikolay Gerasimchik. The family ran a small farm.
In September 1942 Klavdiya’s father Pavel Gerasimchik brought friends to the farm, the Jewish Khomut family. Isaak and Polina Khomut and their daughter Laura had escaped from the ghetto in neighboring Tuczyn (now Tuchyn). Over the following 18 months, Klavdiya Gerasimchik’s family hid the endangered Jews in their barn.
The Israeli Holocaust memorial center Yad Vashem honored Klavdiya Kucheruk née Gerasimchik as Righteous Among the Nations in 1999.
The Gerasimchik family outside their house in Shubkiv after their liberation. Back row, right to left: the sisters Galina and Klavdiya, their mother Lyubov, two relatives, front row: foster-daughter Sinaida Shpak and Pavel Gerasimchik (seated). Source: Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem, 4577
