Dusseldorf Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than a million Ukrainians have fled to Germany, including many children. Natalya Nepomnyashcha came to Augsburg from Kyiv in 2001 at the age of eleven. She and her parents didn’t want to escape war, they wanted to escape poverty.
In Ukraine she was a model student. In Germany she is a helpless girl who doesn’t speak a word of German, lives in a problem area and lives on Hartz IV – and absolutely wants to get out. Her story is not only one about immigration, but above all a story about the burden of social background.
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