Jewish organizations have helped evacuate about 50 Holocaust survivors from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24.
Speaking at a Jewish care home in Frankfurt, the retired teacher said it felt strange to have found such a refuge in the land of her former persecutors. But times had changed and she felt grateful and welcome.
“I have found a second homeland here, and I feel good here,” Valiushkevych said in her native Russian as it snowed outside. “I’m very grateful.” So she accepted the offer of evacuation by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, a humanitarian group which has spent decades supporting Jews in Ukraine and had been providing her with home care.Article content
“The Holocaust survivors are reminded of what they went through as children through today’s experiences and we feel deeply the duty to not let them down this time,” said Ruediger Mahlo, head of the German chapter of the Claims Conference. Evacuations could involve at least 15 organizations including the foreign ministry and more than 50 officials, he said.
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