Jewish refugees, including many kids, have been escaping from Russia advances on Odesa, Ukraine to Germany with help from the Chabad community.
BERLIN -- Maxim and Shaul had spent the last 52 hours on a bus full of dozens of Jewish refugee children that took them from war-torn Ukraine in the dark of night and across six European borders to safety in Berlin.
Only three days earlier, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, a Berlin rabbi and the head of the local Chabad community, had received a phone call from a rabbi in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa begging him to help get the children and teens from the foster care home Mishpacha - Hebrew for family - to a peaceful and secure place.
"When we got on the road, we told the children that we are going on a winter trip," said Rabbi Mendy Wolff, 25, from Odesa, who accompanied the children on the journey."They should not feel like refugees for a single moment." Most of the children from the Odesa home are foster kids, some are orphans and a few are members of the city's Chabad community who were sent out of the country by parents who couldn't flee their homes. Not all teenagers from the foster care home could come along. Boys aged 18 and older had to stay behind as men of military age are not allowed to leave the country.
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