Russia-Ukraine War
The children survived the atrocities: the Jewish orphans crossed the Ukrainian border safely on their way to Israel
The seventh day of fighting in Ukraine, and efforts are continuing to rescue women and children from high-risk areas from the country.
At the end of a complex rescue operation, about 100 Jewish children from the orphanage in the city of Zhytomyr managed to safely cross the border into Romania.
At the same time, a 9-year-old boy who was cut off from his family crossed the border into Poland
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02/03/2022
Wednesday, 02 March 2022, 10:09 Updated: 10:22
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A week has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and efforts are continuing to rescue Jewish boys, women and children from the country who are in danger due to the fighting.
Last night, after a complex operation, a group of about a hundred Jewish children from the Ukrainian city of Zhytomyr managed to cross the border into Romania.
Some of the children did not have proper documentation for the move and with the help of the Israeli consul in Romania Roni Shabtai and the governor of the Suceava district in Romania, the children managed to leave Ukraine safely.
The children will stay in the city of Cluj and from there continue to Israel.
"There is no such country in the world. Six days into the difficult war in Ukraine, and there are moments when words are not enough," said Foreign Minister Yair Lapid after their rescue.
"More than a hundred Jewish orphans from Ukraine crossed the border this evening at a Siret crossing in Romania. Our consul Roni Saturn was there to receive them, and help them cross the border," he added.
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The Jewish orphans who were rescued (Photo: Official website, Israeli Embassy in Romania)
"When it was all over, I asked the security guards to move aside, I got on between two buses, and shed tears," he told Walla!
Roni Shabtai, Israeli Consul in Romania, "I am 57 years old, working for three decades in the civil service, I had exciting moments in my career but I have never had such a thing."
The complex operation that required complex advance preparation began days earlier and ended with six nerve-wracking hours at the border crossing where the consul has been stationed with his staff for a week.
"These are children, some of whom are very small, who walked 400 meters on foot in the snow and the freezing cold of minus seven degrees. It happened because the Ukrainians are very careful about 18 to 60 years old and did not allow bus drivers in their 40s to continue on the Polish side. On their footsteps and we went out to meet them from the Romanian side and the excitement was great to see the faces of the children.I say this not only as their consul but as a human being, as a father.The eldest there was maybe 12 years old, the little ones two years old That we are friends.
The Jewish orphans who were rescued (Photo: Official website, Israeli Embassy in Romania)
"It is a play that of course would evoke feelings in every person and certainly in every Jew, feelings that come from deep inside, from other periods in other places. I was there as usual in my role as a soldier of our country, and I knew I would do anything to transfer them and safely to the other side. "Private but a State Department employee, a civil servant and I honestly say I'm proud to be a part of this process. They got on the bus and some of them made us v with their fingers. We handed them blankets, warm socks and thermoses for the long drive from there to a safe haven in Cluj and from there they will return."
"Unfortunately we see thousands of women in the transition, even very young with or without small children," explained a source familiar with the situation. "For care and supervision in an orphanage. This is not a phenomenon that will disappear soon."
9-year-old Ariel is a member of his family
At the same time, a lone nine-year-old boy who was cut off from his family was rescued and crossed the border into Poland.
The boy is Ariel Kolshov from the city of Berdychiv.
He was cut off from his family because the father worked as a kosher overseer in Krakow, and his mother, sister and 17-year-old brother were in Uman when the war broke out and were rescued to Poland.
When they wanted him to come too, it turned out that his mother had also accidentally taken his passport.
Yesterday the parents arrived at the border crossing from the Polish side with the passport and with the help of the Foreign Ministry, Passportcard and Hilik Magnus his crossing was made possible.
Ariel his family and Chilik Magnus at the border, yesterday (Photo: official website, passport card and Chilik Magnus)
In another rescue incident, dozens of young men from the Chabad yeshiva in the city of Dnipro, the third largest in Ukraine, were rescued tonight in a special operation and removed from the front.
Tomorrow the group will take off for the city of Düsseldorf in western Germany.
The yeshiva director, Rabbi Eli Hefer, said: "The students' parents stay in their cities, because this is their test time. They are happier and calmer when their sons continue to study, so we decided, in one piece of advice with the parents, to go the long way." "Soon to Jerusalem the Holy City in complete redemption and if Messiah is delayed - then return soon to the glorious compound of our glorious yeshiva in Dnipro."
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