“I heard the noise of the battle on the morning of February 24 and couldn’t believe it. But I knew right away that we had to leave, so I packed some things and got in the car,” says mother Nataliya.
stayed with family
First the family fled to western Ukraine: “But then my husband told me to go to Trausdorf with the children. He knew someone here.” The reception in the Burgenland-Croatian community was warm for Nataliya and her daughters Zlata (6) and Kamila (10): “We found a private home with a family whose grandchildren are about the same age as my girls.
This was followed by registration at school, where the children were already looking forward to their new classmates. “Our girls and boys even signed a welcome poster in Ukrainian and learned Ukrainian phrases to greet Zlata and Kamila,” says director Elisabeth Morri.
Croatian helps with integration
The bilingualism of the teachers and students in Trausdorf greatly simplifies communication, Morri knows: “Burgenland-Croatian and Ukrainian are not so different. You understand many terms and then you understand the rest.”
Zlata and Kamila being diligent students. At the local inspection “Krone”, the girls proudly stated terms in German. And yet the great longing for home remains: “We hope that peace will come soon and that we can go back to daddy.”
Source: Krone
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