We Re In This Together Ukrainians Start A New German School Year Germany
The secondary school teacher, from Kyiv, has been leading a class of Ukrainian students, aged 12 to 17, since April. They are located in Potsdam, a German city just west of Berlin, where the Helmholtz Gymnasium, or high school, has given them space and resources. Mashkova has been hired to teach German in one of the thousands of willkommensklassen, or welcome classes, set up in schools across the country. She fled the war in Ukraine in early March with her 16-year-old son and five-year-old daughter, leaving behind her husband, a Ukrainian army officer....