Posted on 04/28/22
| News Source: i24
'The fact of having survived is my victory over the Nazis'
Twenty Holocaust survivors from Ukraine made Aliyah to Israel on Wednesday, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), through special rescue flights.
Today, 81 Jewish refugees, including 21 children, who fled the war in #Ukraine, will make Aliyah and land in #Israel on a flight from Budapest.
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Russia's military invasion of Ukraine is the second war they have experienced in their lives, but this time their advanced age has made their evacuation particularly difficult.
After landing on a rescue flight in cooperation with, among others, the Friendship Foundation, the Jewish Agency and the Aliyah and Integration Ministry, the passengers were transported by ambulances to hospitals and retirement homes.
Ludmila and her family fled the Nazis at the time to the Caucasus and although she was only nine years old, she was already working in the fields.
"That's what brought us money. I remember I was always hungry. Surviving is my victory over the Nazis."
After the war, she returned to Ukraine and lived not far from Kharkov, which has been heavily bombed by the Russians since February.