rescuers of jews

Laptevienė Jekaterina

JEKATERINA LAPTEVIENĖ

In July 1944, at the end of the German occupation, Jekaterina Laptevienė hid Gutia Šmuklerytė-Fish and her cousin Frumė Malka Kučinskienė.

In 2002, Jekaterina Laptevienė was (posthumously) awarded the Life Saviour‘s Cross.