Germany’s Family Minister Anne Spiegel, a member of the government cabinet, paid a special visit to the Chabad House in Berlin, which hosts more than 100 children from the Odessa Children’s Home, who fled the war in Ukraine. • The Minister distributed gifts
The German Minister of Family Affairs, Ann Spiegel, a member of the Government Cabinet, paid a special visit to the Chabad House in Berlin, where more than a hundred children from the ‘Children’s Home’ from Odessa, who fled when the war broke out in Ukraine, are hosted.
Minister Spiegel, together with the staff of her office, visited the children and took the opportunity to have a personal conversation with them, during which she heard from them about their experiences during the escape journey from Ukraine and the Chabad warm home in Berlin.
The minister was received by the rabbi of Berlin and the Chabad emissary, Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel. At the beginning of the visit, the rabbi paid Sarah a comprehensive visit to the place where the children who came from Odessa were staying, where they grew up in the warm children’s home run by a Chabad emissary and rabbi of Odessa, Rabbi Avraham Wolf and his wife Chaya.
Spiegel, herself a mother of four, was happy to see that the children had found their place in their new home in Berlin. “The family atmosphere that prevails among the big and small children amazed me,” the minister said enthusiastically in a conversation with the media, which covered the visit.
The Minister gave the children special gifts and wished them a happy life of stability.
She thanked Rabbi Teichtel and the staff of the Jewish Center for the tremendous assistance that saved the children, and promised to provide any assistance needed for the continued establishment of the ‘Children’s Home’ in its new location.