Trains run from East Berlin to Central Station every day, laden with thousands of refugees - men, women and children who fled Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
If you wish to continue, you will receive free train tickets throughout Europe. Those who do not know or do not know where to go are taken to the cave hall.
What they find is a huge process of welcoming them. Food and drinks are distributed along with a SIM card for phones and medical teams, translators, volunteers and organizers are there to help. Hundreds of German families also stand there, sheltering the refugees in their homes. One person says, "It can fit two people! In the short or long term." Another said, "Spacious room. 1-3 people. You're welcome too! Any number you want." When a man with a megaphone asks him if someone can kill 13 people - and you continue, there's applause. Here's a mother with her daughter, no more than 12 years old, with a sign on her hand that reads, "One mother, two babies, four to six weeks." Next to her is 70-year-old Margot Baldoff, holding a blue and yellow plaque in her hand that reads 'A room for mother and child'.
“I am a bit of a refugee child,” Margot told me, explaining that her mother, still alive and now 97, had to flee Hitler's Nazis to find refuge. “So I feel I have to do something for the refugees. This time I am not Hitler, but what Putin is doing to me is similar to what Hitler did before.
Despite the large number of refugees, there seems to be enough German families.
Matina Verdakas and her husband Timmo Koehlery have opened a house on the outskirts of Berlin. They have two young women and are raising four Ukrainians.
They have Anastasia and their 4-year-old son Artemi, and their mother-in-law Victoria and Vladimir.
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