The Konechny family has three children (G22, twin B17). The boys were studying in the army cadets school in Sumy and were miraculously saved the first night of the war when their dormitory building was bombed. They moved to Uzhgorod on the other side of Ukraine closer to the European border. Now live in Kiev.

The Shnitky family has 5 children. One boy is married with a child and lives in Israel. Another boy also lives in Israel and just finished service in the Israeli Defense Forces. The Shnitky’s also have a daughter who lives in Poland. The 2 younger boys were home when the war broke; the older boy was drafted to the front lines (where he is still fighting) and the youngest lives his mother in Poland where they relocated.

The Kendushenko has four young children (G16, B11, B6, G2). They managed to drive out a week after the war began. They traveled from Poland to Israel and now to Germany trying to find the best place to settle. Since the outbreak of the war, the eldest girl has moved back to Sumy to be with her grandparents and finish school.

The Muzalevsky family has two boys (8 and 5). The morning the war broke out they immediately left and traveled for three days until they got to Poland. They remained there for several months before returning to Sumy.

The Rut family has a seven year old daughter and a recently bar mitzvah son in Shul the Shabbos before Sukkos. They stayed in Sumy with their mother/grandmother who is part of the volunteer group helping other needy people.

2 children (G7, B4). The windows in their apartment were blown out in the first week of the war and they left to live in a neighboring village with their grandparents. Last month they moved back to Sumy.

(B16 and G8). Were helped to leave sumy 2 weeks into the war and they have resettled temporarily in Germany.

Have one 9 year old daughter. Were helped them to evacuate 2 weeks into the war. They spent a few months in Poland and then came back to Sumy.

12 year old girl and 6 year old boy. Family ran from Slavyansk (Donetsk Region) and came to Sumy with the clothes on their back and what they could carry in their hands.

Girl 15 and boy 10. They live a village a 10 minute drive from Sumy and stayed there to take care of the grandparents.