(Jewish Group) How a Ukrainian refugee found shelter at an Auschwitz education center

Oksana Naumchuk was supposed to host friends visiting from Poland in her Kyiv apartment this May. All she had to do before then: Finish renovating her kitchen.

Now, Naumchuk doesn’t know when she’ll return to Ukraine.

“I hate this word ‘refugee,’” she said. “But this is how it is.”

Naumchuk, 26, is one of an estimated 4.4 million refugees to leave Ukraine since Russia’s invasion of the country in late February. Among all their stories, hers stands out for where she has found shelter: For the past month, Naumchuk has been living at the International Youth Meeting Centre (IYMC) in Oświęcim, Poland, a youth education center located about a mile from the former Auschwitz concentration camp.

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