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Sitting in this room in the
Erfülltes Leben
care center in Berlin-Biesdorf, Elena Frischerman looks a little lost.
Last Friday, this 84-year-old lady was still in her apartment in kyiv.
After three days of traveling in an ambulance “
without a shock absorber!
she finally arrives in Germany from Poland.
An exodus which is not the first of his life.
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In 1941, Elena and her mother fled from German troops.
Because Elena, only three years old at the time, is Jewish.
Their journey took them to Kazakhstan, and it was not until 1944 that they were able to find their country, devastated by the war.
History repeats itself today: Elena had to leave everything behind again, this time fleeing in the opposite direction.
Some 10,000 Holocaust survivors resided in Ukraine before the Russian army invaded the country.
Very old, many of them depend on heavy medical care.
Confined to their house or apartment…
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