Saide Arifova (1916 – 9 September 2007) was a Crimean Tatar woman from Bakhchisarai, Crimea, who saved at least 74 Jewish children from the Nazis and the NKVD during World War II.
She also managed to conceal children from Kerch orphanage, who were due to be sent to Germany for medical experiments.
Despite resisting the Nazis and becoming a victim of the Gestapo herself, she still was deported to Uzbek SSR during Sürgün, as the Crimean Tatars were considered collectively guilty of collaboration.
She did manage to convince the NKVD that the children were Jewish, not Crimean Tatar, and save them from exile.
[1] Multiple sources claim she was declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, but she is not listed as a person awarded the title anywhere in their database.