In need of care to Germany
Faeser: 47 Holocaust survivors brought from Ukraine
4/7/2022 1:08 am
Thousands of Holocaust survivors live in Ukraine. With efforts from Germany, almost 50 of them in need of care have now been evacuated. Federal Minister of the Interior Faeser emphasizes Germany’s historic responsibility in this regard.
According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany has so far enabled almost 50 Jewish Holocaust survivors in need of care to flee Ukraine. “In our special responsibility as Germans,” the Federal Republic of Germany evacuated and took in 47 Jewish Holocaust survivors in need of care, said Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser to the newspapers of the Funke media group, according to the advance notice. Evacuations organized by the Central Welfare Office of Jews in Germany had previously been reported.
According to Faeser, what is happening in Ukraine is “terrible”. “That’s why one of our most important tasks as the Federal Republic of Germany is to do everything we can to ensure that this war ends as quickly as possible. And at the same time we have to protect the people from Ukraine from these horribly brutal attacks,” said the SPD politician. “We’re giving them a temporary home. We managed to do that very well across Europe in the first few weeks of the war.”
The Federal Minister of the Interior sharply commented on the reports of obvious Russian acts of violence against civilians in Ukraine. “I’m a lawyer. Of course, you shouldn’t judge anyone. But everything indicates that Vladimir Putin and his army are committing terrible war crimes in Ukraine.” The pictures from the small town of Bucha near Kyiv are “terrible, just like the bombed-out houses in other places.”
Faeser emphasized: “And we mustn’t forget: This whole war of aggression that Russia is waging is a blatant breach of international law.” The Attorney General and the Federal Criminal Police Office would now collect evidence of specific war crimes. “It is particularly important now, for example, to question refugees in Germany as witnesses and to follow up every tip very intensively,” said the SPD politician.