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Sofia's odyssey: From Ukraine to Berlin via London and Israel

Sofia's odyssey: From Ukraine to Berlin via London and Israel

Update: 2024-02-14

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This is the story of Sofia - a Ukrainian refugee now living in Berlin. After living in Israel , she and her Israel husband went back to Ukraine a few months before the war with Russia in 2022, to be with her mother and grandmother.All too quickly she found her life turned upside down.
This holder of a masters degree in international economics now works as a cleaner in Berlin and tells her story to Stephen Barden, with pain, with humour and fearsome grit.

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Sofia's odyssey: From Ukraine to Berlin via London and Israel

Sofia's odyssey: From Ukraine to Berlin via London and Israel

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