German Federal Minister visits Chabad Center Hosting Jewish Children who Fled Odessa

The Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Anne Spiegel, visited the orphans and single mothers with their children from the Jewish Odessa community in Ukraine who have recently arrived in Berlin and have been taken in by Chabad Berlin.

Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, chairman of the Chabad Berlin community gave the minister a tour of the hotel where the children are housed. She took the opportunity to talk personally with the children, brought gifts and received a homemade mask herself. Spiegel, herself a mother of four, praised the quick relief action of Chabad Berlin and told the media that it was Germany’s historic duty to take in Jewish refugees in particular.