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| Year of birth | 1890 |
| Date of arrest | 23 February 1943 |
| Place of death | Kyiv |
| Date of death | 1943 |
| Location of the Stumbling Stone Maze | Mazepy street, 14 |
| Stumbling Stone installation date | 16 October 2025 |
| Research teams | Team leaders: Iryna Fridman and Lana Symonenko. Participants: students of the ORT Lyceum No. 141. The team was particularly motivated to participate in the project because the participants were researching their own family histories. |
Serafima Kozachynska was born in 1890.
Family: Serafima Kozachynska was married to Mykola Petrenko and had two sons, Oleksandr and Volodymyr Kozachynskyi. Oleksandr was a military officer, a member of the Communist Party, and during the Nazi occupation of Kyiv – the leader of an underground organisation.
According to her relatives, Serafima sang coloratura soprano and ran the household. Her husband Mykola was a supplier.
From 1941 to 1943, Serafima Kozachynska participated in the Soviet underground resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Kyiv. She was the owner of a secret apartment at 5b Saperne Pole Street, apartment 11.
The Gestapo arrested Serafima Kozachynska, her husband, and her son Volodymyr in the secret apartment. The Nazis shot them all in Babyn Yar.
Information about the fate of the Kozachynskyi family can be found in the memorial publication The Book of Sorrow.
Links and documents:
[https://www.kby.kiev.ua/komitet/ua/membook/book-of-sorrow-ukraine/16/202.html]
