LRYTAS.LT

The cousins Lesya Oroshko, 36, and Alyona Chugai, 46, are two people among millions who fled the Ukraine after Russia invaded. Their story recounted in the Washington Post is unusual.

The two cousins landed in Israel last week and were met there by Sharon Bass, 46, whose Jewish grandmother was rescued and taken in by Lesya’s grandmother during the Holocaust. Bass said she was honored to take in the cousins and so pay back for their family’s endless goodness shown almost 80 years ago. She said she was overtaken by a sense of history repeating itself.

Full story in Lithuanian here.