Mariya Osipova is recorded at Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations - one of the non-Jews who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
The record lists Mariya Osipova as Hero of the Soviet Union (1908–1999).
Mariya Osipova was born at Sierkavicy in 1908. Her recorded nationality is Russian Empire. She was educated at Lenin Higher Communist Agricultural School of Byelorussia and Minsk Law Institute.
By occupation Mariya Osipova was partisan and politician - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Most rescuers said afterwards that they had done nothing remarkable. The historical record disagrees, which is the point of recording it.
Recognition: Order of Lenin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Mariya Osipova died in 1999, aged 91. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Order of Lenin
- Hero of the Soviet Union
- Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Worked as partisan and politician
- Educated at Lenin Higher Communist Agricultural School of Byelorussia and Minsk Law Institute
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