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It's almost 8:30 a.m. and they are hurrying, schoolbags on their backs, into the still sleeping shopping center.
The few groups of children go beyond the lowered iron curtains to reach the fourth and last floor of the building which dominates Warsaw's main thoroughfare.
It is there, between the cinema and the play area which serves as a playground for the youngest children, that nearly 500 students and their 31 teachers have been meeting daily for two years to study.
In front of the glass door of the establishment, the parents who have come to accompany the youngest say
“have a good day, see you tonight”
in Ukrainian, while their children greet the director.
Not a word is exchanged in Polish.
Natalia Rowycka herself would be incapable of holding a conversation in the language of the country where she teaches.
Originally from Mariupol, where her school was destroyed by the Russians, the chemistry teacher took charge of this unique establishment upon her arrival in the spring...
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