Grassroots groups in L.A. help rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine
LOS ANGELES -- Since the shelling began to intensify in Kyiv and Kharkiv about a week ago, Julia Entin has been working feverishly - thousands of miles away in Los Angeles - to evacuate Holocaust survivors in Ukraine who find themselves trapped in yet another conflict.
Entin is a strand in an intricate web of grassroots organizations - Jewish and non-Jewish - that has been spinning round the clock in Ukraine, working with taxi and bus operators to ferry members of vulnerable communities out of the war zone. Entin has still had trouble getting survivors to leave with trusted taxi or bus operators, who she says are vetted and recruited through referrals. This week, one man in his late 80s refused to leave because he was afraid he might die on the way.
"He refuses to leave, he doesn't want to move," she said, adding that his 88-year-old wife has medical issues as well."This is the heartbreaking part."On Sunday, 81-year-old Holocaust survivor Valery Semenovich Zharkovsky, his daughter Inna Valerievna Zharkovskaya and her 8-year-old daughter, were rescued from their home in Kharkiv.
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