Aisha Kanapatskaya lived in Minsk with her mother Fatima and her grandmother Fursah. Her father Suleiman had been murdered during the Soviet mass repressions in 1938. The Tatar Muslim family was friendly with the Jewish Davidson family. When Fruma and Israel Davidson had to move to the Minsk ghetto with their three children Rachel, Mira, and Vladimir in 1941, Aisha and Fatima Kanapatskaya provided them with food. After escaping from Drozdy camp in 1941, Israel Davidson found refuge with the Kanapatskis for several weeks.
When the coordinated murders in the ghetto intensified in 1942, the Davidsons spent several brief stays hiding with the Kanapatskis. The women could not take them in permanently, however, as their home was frequently checked by the police.
Shortly before the ghetto was liquidated in 1943, the Davidsons again fled to the Kanapatskis. So as not to endanger the women any longer, the family hid with a Jewish partisan unit in the surrounding forests until their liberation. The families remained in contact after the war. Aisha Kanapatskaya and her mother Fatima were honored as Righteous Among the Nations in 2003.