In a sign of how much times have moved on, the German government is helping Holocaust survivors flee a country it once brought war too itself and move to Germany.
The 83-year-old told AP how the beginning of the assault took her back to Nazi air attacks on her hometown of Odessa as a little girl. Now she says she is ‘too old to run to the bunker’ and instead simply ‘stayed inside my apartment and prayed the bombs would not kill me’. A second group of 14 Holocaust survivors, many of them ill and bed-ridden, were brought out of Ukraine on Sunday and around 500 more are deemed priority cases because of ailing health.Boris Romanchenko, 96, who survived several Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust, was killed during an attack in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Tatyana Zhuravliova said watching Russian bombs fall on Ukraine brought back memories of the Second World War Both were also traumatized as children when they had to escape with their parents from the Nazis, fleeing to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan respectively.