Afanasyev family

For eight months Pyotr Afanasyev hid three girls escaping from the ghetto in the cellar of his house in Daugavpils. They were later hidden in the home of his parents, Anastasia and Philip Afanasyev, where one Jewish family was already in hiding. The family of Pyotr Afanasyev’s brother, Fadey and Yevdokia Afanasyev, and also his sister, Minadora Afanasyeva-Mikulova also played their part in saving the Jews.

Photographs from the achieves of Documentation Centre ‘Jews in Latvia’.