“On the 9th of March, a shell hit the house, my parents and I were under the rubble, the neighbours came to help us”

Olha is from Mariupol. She was buried underneath debris from her own home. She and her parents were pulled out by neighbours. Then they tried to join the evacuation column that was forming near the theatre. But instead of a green corridor, people were hit by an air strike. The woman and her parents then went to live with relatives in Mariupol. A large underground car park was a lifesaver for the family and the car. It survived, and Olha left the city in it in April. Then came the filtration and the long journey to Zaporizhzhia.