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KewlKat

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Wed Sep 13, 2023, 05:26 PM Sep 2023

(Jewish Group) Heroic Jewish aid worker Emma Igual killed in Ukraine by Russian shell

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Jewish aid worker Emma Igual, 32, was one of two passengers killed over the weekend when a Russian shell struck their rescue vehicle near Bakhmut, Ukraine.

The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, Igual grew up in Spain and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied humanitarian aid.

Responding to Russia’s war on Ukraine, she co-founded the rescue charity Road to Relief, which delivers aid and drives specialist doctors to the front lines of the war. “Emma was by far the most hard-working civilian aid worker in Ukraine,” a colleague, Peter Fouche, told London’s Jewish Chronicle. “She could not keep still. She had her fingers in many pies. She was wonderfully, shockingly beautiful as well.”

Here is a link to her rescue charity.

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