25.02.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Thousands of protesters gathered in front of Berlin's Brandenburger Tor and the chancelors office to show their solidarity with the Ukraine.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Firemen from all over Poland came to the train station of Przemyśl to help Ukrainian refugees arriving here with a direct train connection from Lviv.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Evgeny and his friends arrived at Przemyśl from Egypt, where he works as a scuba diving teacher. They are rushing to the platforms, to catch the next train to the Ukraine, fighting for their homeland. None of them has military experience nor ever held a weapon.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Alina was in Istanbul when war took over in her homeland. The 27 year old Lviv resident is waiting on the train to see her child in Ukraine and showing me her child sitting in a makeshift bomb shelter.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
The makeshift camp in the main hall of a train station where people arriving from Ukraine find a place to sleep.
26.02.2022 | Przemyśl (Poland)
Firefighters carry food packages to feed the refugees who arrive on the train from Lviv.
Refugees arriving exhausted with buses from Medyka border at a makeshift collection point near a shopping mall in Przemysl.
Volunteers unloading cars with donations at the Przemyśl train station.
Refugees who arrived with the train from Lviv are waiting to continue to the immigration office and leave to other western cities.
The train that goes back to Lviv is packed with donations from all over Poland.
With help from young and old the Polish community shows an act of solidarity which was not seen in decades.
Donations piling up at the parking lot of a mall in Przemyśl.
Svetoslav, his seven-year-old brother Ivan and his mother Svetlana having lunch in Przemyśl school gym. The family woke up by the sound of the bombs that hit Kiev early in the morning and started their escape to Poland immediately. On their journey, they saw a lot of devastation like burnt cars, houses and destroyed infrastructure.
Marcel, a 29-year-old Kharkov-based Business Administration student went 10 hours by train to Przemyśl. He tells me of POC discrimination on the Ukrainian border and confirms videos that were shown to me by other refugees.
Hamza, a 22-year-old medicine student, resting with his fellows Abdelmoutalib and Ayoub, all from Dnipro, a city with a strong Marrocan diaspora. Unfortunately, Hamza lost all documents from his university and fears that all his efforts are irrecoverable.
Rihab, also 22 years 22-year-old Dnipro-based student found her way to the school gym of Przemyśl. As she originates from Agadir, she was happy to find the marrocan »Dnipro-Boys« around Hamza. Next to her, a prayer rug hangs on the climbing frames of the gym.
The school gym of Przemyśl was activated as a refugee camp within a few hours and provides a home to dozens of families from Ukraine.
Angela, 36 swaying her toddler. Her family lives in Melitopol a picturesque town in the south-east of Ukraine 60km from Sea of Azov.
Portrait of 12-year-old Lina, who arrived Przemyśl with her grandma, mother and brother Jaroslav.
Portrait of 33-year-old Nikolai from Saporischschja, the sixth biggest city in Ukraine most famous for the Soviet-era car factory. It is still an important industrial center of the country.
Refugees covered in blankets waiting on the main road of Medyka for transport to the next city.
A group of students from Nepal warming up at a fireplace.
Ukrainian men from all over the world make their journey to the border station to go to their homeland, save their families and fight against the Russian intruders.
01.03.2022 | Korczowa (Poland)
Families waiting outside the refugee shelter of Młyny near the Korczowa border station.
01.03.2022 | Korczowa (Poland)
Thousands of displaced persons arrive per day at a former Biedronka supermarket in Młyny and find a place to rest and eat.
02.03.2022 | Korczowa (Poland)
Luda, 38 years old is feeding her 11-month-old son Andrei at the border near Kroszienko. They fled from Ivano-Frankivsk and will travel now to relatives in Staten Island, New York City.
0303.2022 | Ustrzyki Dolne (Poland)
Water bottles are the most needed donations and fill up the basement of the school building.
03.03.2022 | Ustrzyki Dolne (Poland)
Dima and his mother Elena are resting in a former school. They are planning to go to Leipzig.
03.03.2022 | Ustrzyki Dolne (Poland)
Nine-year-old Mischa, dressed as a dragon next to other children in a set-up playroom full of toys and dolls.
03.03.2022 | Ustrzyki Dolne (Poland)
Ten-year-old Alexander from Lwiw is drawing pictures to beat the time.
03.03.2022 | Krościenko (Poland)
Refugees warm up in tents near the border of Krościenko.
04.03.2022 | Krościenko (Poland)
A medical-aid transport from Germany on a motorway car park near the border of Korczowa.
05.03.2022 | Krościenko (Poland)
The back of a former Tesco supermarket near the city of Przemyśl was repurposed as a logistics hub for donations sent in from all over Europe.
05.03.2022 | Krościenko (Poland)
The space of the supermarket has been converted into temporary accommodation for refugees. Here they can recover from the strains of their escape from Ukraine and spend the night in the warm before continuing their journey to other cities.
08.03.2022 | Lviv (Ukraine)
A gym in Lviv was transformed into a makeshift camp, where refugees from central, southern and eastern Ukraine can rest for some days and get back to strength before continuing their journey to Poland and the EU countries.
08.03.2022 | Lviv (Ukraine)
Young men carrying military boots to a waiting train at the main station of Lviv. The train will carry those goods to the besieged capital Kiev.
08.03.2022 | Lviv (Ukraine)
Children in the back of a DIY camping van of a volunteer who offers transports from Lviv to Poland three to four times a week. Older children and their mothers found a place on the floor of the van.
15.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
People of color like Africans, Indians, and Arabs, who have lived and studied in Ukraine fled the war in the early days and there is much evidence that those individuals were treated unfairly by the West with actions and manipulation on the border and immigration centers. Thomas is 28 and fled from Kiev where he studied International Business Management. He is now in contact with the association to continue his studies as soon as possible
16.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
The welcome tent in front of Berlin's main station is the first point of contact for many refugees from Ukraine. It is managed by »Berliner Stadtmission« and can host about 1.500 people per day. Here they can get free food and drinks and find help in finding the destinations of their travel.
18.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
A hangar of the former airport in Berlin-Tempelhof serves as a central collection point for donations in Berlin.
25.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Within two weeks Berlin created a distribution center and temporary home on the tarmac of the former airport Berlin-Tegel. If possible, the refugees should be distributed to the reception facilities in the other federal states on the day of their arrival, or the next day at the latest.
25.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Refugees who are to remain in Berlin are temporarily accommodated in the airport building in the former terminals. There are 700 beds inside the airport building and 900 more in tents on the tarmac area.
25.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Since a few days the German army forces are helping to register and coordinate the flow of displaced persons from Ukraine.
25.03.2022 | Berlin (Germany)
Buses are waiting on the apron to distribute the refugees to all federal states either directly or by train via Berlin Central Station.
31.03.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Impression of the main hall at Torwar sports stadium which hosts a few hundred people from Ukraine.
31.03.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Nduka Edike, a Nigerian man who has lived in Ukraine for nearly 25 years, at a hostel for third-country nationals on the outskirts of Warsaw.
01.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Irina Sytnik (right) found a temporary home with a polish family and now works as a kitchen assistant in the International American School of Warsaw among other women from Ukraine. After their regular work, the women prepare Vareniki, traditional eastern-European dumplings, which later will be frozen and donated to Ukraine.
01.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Marina Konpakova lives with her three daughters at a former soviet theater at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.
01.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Irina Kavchuk (second from left) fled with her kids and her friend from Ukraine days after the invasion started and found a temporary home at the house of her sister who has lived in Poland for several years. Now they share her small flat with seven people on the outskirts of Warsaw.
03.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
A quickly set up UNHCR office in Warsaw helps people to register for their services and apply for funding from the fonds of the organization.
03.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Street vendors selling Ukraine-themed objects in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in the center of Warsaw.
03.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Marc a forty-year old US-Army veteran from Minnesota just arrived in Warsaw with other men from the US to cross the border and join the Ukrainian forces in the upcoming days.
04.04.2022 | Warsaw (Poland)
Kids playing and posing in the child zone at the refugee shelter at Warsaw EXPO.
