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| Year of birth | 1897 |
| Date of arrest | 29.09.1941 |
| Place of death | Babyn Yar |
| Date of death | 29.09.1941 |
| Location of the Stumbling Stone | Volodymyrska Street, 1 |
| Stumbling Stone installation date | 5 October 2021 |
| Research teams |
The bio was researched by Tetiana Shyshkina and Anna Holiuk.
Since they were children, the researchers had known Nadiia Andrianivna Stryzhevska who saved Rakhil Kozyra’s children Halyna and Leonid from death in Babyn Yar. So, they wanted to honour the memory of several families.
Rakhil Kozyra was born on May 5, 1897, in the village of Ihnativka, Kyiv Region.
Rakhil worked as a teacher at school No. 25. According to her granddaughter’s story, her husband Yakiv was a Red Army soldier and survived the war. The couple had two children: a daughter, Halyna, and a son, Leonid.
The children were rescued by the family of Yakiv’s brother, Andrian. Nadiia, Rakhil’s niece, persuaded her aunt not to take the children with her to the so-called assembly point for Jews. Nadiia took the children away to her home, where they lived until their father returned from the front in 1944. Andrian, his wife Mariia, and daughter Nadiia were honoured with the title of Righteous Among the Nations.
On September 29, Rakhil and her parents went to the ordered assembly point for Jews and never returned. Rakhil perished in Babyn Yar at the age of 44.
