Since the beginning of the war, Migdal’s team and volunteers in Odesa are working hard to help to take care of homebound elderly and Holocaust survivors. We are making great efforts to provide support to the elderly who are in desperate need of food, water, clothing, shelter, medicine, emergency care, transportation, and other vital necessities.
Regardless of all difficulties, Odesa’s Holocaust survivors stood up against the war once again! On October 20, 2022, before the opening of the meeting, the German Bundestag congratulated the former prisoner of the Bershad ghetto Roman Shvartzman, the head of the Odesa Regional Association of Jews – former prisoners of the ghetto and the Nazi concentration of the Tion camp. At the invitation of the Vice-President of the Bundestag, Ekaterina Gjorin-Eckardt, Roman Schwarzmann became a guest of the honorary tribune of the German Parliament and delivered a speech to the German parliamentarians asking to help Ukraine against Russian aggression. The president of the German Bundestag, Berbel Bass, also addressed the meeting with a separate speech to a survivor of the Holocaust who is now forced to experience Putin’s new genocide.
Providing care for older adults and Holocaust survivors is our sacred responsibility. It is very difficult to imagine that during the horrifying wartime reality in Ukraine, they are reliving their pain again! The memories of terrible trials they suffered in their young age, malnutrition, loss of spouses, children, friends, are being intensified by today’s war crisis and triggers traumas they experienced in the past. Migdal keeps a promise to never forget and never abandon through action and care!
