She fled her home in a Kyiv suburb with her family and survived only through the kindness of a dozen strangers on two continents.
The 23-year-old had been living what she called “my ordinary life” in a Kyiv suburb near Bucha — attending church, caring for her husband, Mischa, and their toddler, David, and preparing for the arrival of their second baby. Between the house chores, and when Anya could muster the energy, she’d pick up freelance work to make extra money to support their soon-to-be family of four.
The next several weeks, the unborn baby grew along with uncertainty around what might happen to Anya’s pregnancy and where the family — with the lives of six other children in the balance — would land. Their journey was marked by missteps, painful separation and blind luck; by solutions plucked serendipitously out of casual conversations with strangers and acts of kindness from unlikely sources.
The family headed to the U.K., where they were turned away, and then to Brussels, where they showed up — desperate — at the American embassy. There, too, they were out of luck. The U.S. plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians, President Joe Biden announced in March, and more than 25,000 have arrived since, according tofrom U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Though the government doesn’t track refugee pregnancies, some expectant mothers have lost their babies during the resettlement process.
“You can’t claim the words ‘never again’ and then just sit in the comfort of your home without helping others.”“It wasn't something that jeopardized our safety,” said Kirshner. “In World War II, when people hid Jews, it jeopardized the safety of the Jew and the hider — they would be killed summarily for doing it. That wasn't the case for us.”
Saphier adjusted Anya’s due date and began monitoring the baby with weekly ultrasounds, which Anya would share over Telegram with her husband, now based near the town of Mogilev Podolsk on the Ukraine-Moldova border. Through another friend who happened to know a local superintendent, Hollander also managed to get the five Chernets children enrolled in public school in Ridgewood, within walking distance from their new home.
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