The younger children leaving Ukraine didn’t seem worse for wear despite the long journey. The elder ones were more pensive. “I feel very bad because I have chosen to go to a normal country while my family stays in Ukraine, where they have rockets and bombs,” said Natasha Dubinskaya, 16.
Without passports or birth certificates, the children from a Chabad-run home were spirited out of Odessa, en route to Berlin. Who helped? ‘Who didn’t help?’ says the rabbi at the heart of the operation