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Ickinger Ukraine Aid: Tears flow at the first meeting

2022-03-29T18:11:20.250Z


Ickinger Ukraine Aid: Tears flow at the first meeting Created: 03/29/2022, 20:00 By: Bettina Sewald First Ukraine meeting at the sports field: Deputy Mayor Claudia Roederstein welcomed refugees and helpers. © ina At a first meeting on the Ickinger sports field, refugees tell about their experiences and thank them for the help. Icking – When Stepan Khomyshyn celebrated his 70th birthday with h


Ickinger Ukraine Aid: Tears flow at the first meeting

Created: 03/29/2022, 20:00

By: Bettina Sewald

First Ukraine meeting at the sports field: Deputy Mayor Claudia Roederstein welcomed refugees and helpers.

© ina

At a first meeting on the Ickinger sports field, refugees tell about their experiences and thank them for the help.

Icking

– When Stepan Khomyshyn celebrated his 70th birthday with his daughter Natalia Axtner in Icking in January, he had no idea that he would be leaving his Ukrainian homeland as a refugee less than two months later.

The widower was completely unprepared for the Russian attack.

"No one expected that," his daughter translated in an interview with our newspaper on the sidelines of the first meeting of the Ukraine aid Icking on Friday afternoon on the sports field.

Anxious hours during the escape

Like so many others, Khomyshyn had to leave his home from now on.

"With only a mobile phone, money and ID, he made his way to the train station in Kyiv on February 25 under fire," Axtner continues.

He traveled 1,000 kilometers by train to Lemberg that night – standing.

From there he took the bus to Warsaw and was stuck in a traffic jam at the Polish border for 40 hours.

It was dramatic.

At some point the cell phone battery was empty.

The father was just able to write: "Don't worry, I know where I have to go." There were anxious hours of waiting until he sat on the train to Munich via Breslau and Dresden - and a great relief when he finally got in Icking stood at the front door.

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The successful escape from madness.

This unites all of the 30 or so Ukrainians who came to the sports field to get to know each other and exchange ideas.

The meeting was organized by the second mayor, Claudia Roederstein, who warmly welcomed the approximately 60 people present, refugees and helpers alike: “We all know that your hopes, concerns and hearts are in Ukraine.” Natalia Axtner has lived in Ukraine for over 20 years of the Isar Valley community and translated every sentence for their compatriots: that the unimaginable madness does not only affect the Ukraine and Russia, but concerns us all;

that starting next week we want to find solutions for the school children who have arrived and organize German courses for the adults;

that the path to work for the refugees should be made easier and faster and that the bureaucratic hurdles must be removed.

Claudia Roederstein emphasized: “We are a small community.

But we are strong.” Mainly because everyone would help together.

Finally united: Natalia Axtner is happy that her father Stepan Khomyshyn (70) survived the dramatic escape well – and is now safe with her.

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Many supporters came to the sports field to offer the refugees accommodation, donations in kind, but also practical help as a translator or with helping them with their homework.

Mostly women with their children came from the Ukraine, some older people like Stepan Khomyshyn, but also whole families.

Just like Tymur Ivanov with his wife Svetlana and children Edvard (10) and Teia (8).

The head of an online school was born in Mariupol and lived with his family 25 kilometers west of Kyiv - near the front - until two weeks ago.

“For ten days we experienced the approaching hail of bombs at home, until a bomb or rocket landed about a kilometer from our house and shattered all the windows.

It was awful," he calmly told our newspaper,

but still shocked by the events in his homeland.

They then packed up the essentials and fled by car.

He was able to contact an Ickinger family through the evangelical church.

Now he is safe with his family and will try to round up his teachers (who have fled in different directions) to rebuild the school.

"Probably also with German lessons," he said with a smile.

"It was terrible": Tymur and Svetlana Ivanov with their children Edvard and Teia fled by car from the hail of bombs in their homeland.

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Great gratitude felt

As a teacher, Tymur Ivanov is used to finding the right words.

So also after the welcome by the deputy mayor.

Ivanov took the floor on behalf of all compatriots stranded in Icking to say thank you for the help provided.

A speech of thanks that Natalia Axtner willingly translated into German and that touched everyone present.

According to Ivanov, there are conflicting opinions in Ukraine as far as Germans are concerned.

That is the result of the past.

"But we are positively impressed by the openness and willingness to help here on site," says the 39-year-old.

In war you would get to know all the dark sides of a soul "but we have seen here how open and bright the soul of the Germans is." Words that left no one unimpressed.

Here and there tears flowed, hands were pressed,

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Without much effort and despite the language barrier, the many children present then mixed with each other.

They grabbed the balls that were ready and started their own playful meeting with "Auf geht's" and "Dawai".

On the homepage ukraine-hilfe-icking.de there is - partly in two languages ​​- all further information on how to support the refugees.

And from now on there will be an open meeting every Tuesday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the tea room of the evangelical church, to which Stepan Khomyshyn at Ichoring 49 will certainly come.

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You can read the latest news from Icking here.

Source: merkur

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