Early Friday morning, November 4th, 2022, I met my wife Anita and Hannu Ylitalo in Budapest. After breakfast we drove to Romania in a van from HELP and HOPE. We arrived in Satu Mare just before noon. The former president of the Jewish community, Decsei Nicolae, welcomed us with his team in front of one of the city center hotels.… Read more →
At the end of October 2022, Leena Hakala and Anne Laine came to Vienna for a Hanukkah workshop. These two hardworking volunteers put together sixty attractive gift bags for the Jewish community of Rădăuți in eastern Romania. We also bought groceries for Ukraine. Leena and Anne report on their workshop experiences below: “When we first planned the Hanukkah gift packs… Read more →
At the beginning of September, I managed to combine a business trip with an aid transport to Oradea. Thanks to the HELP and HOPE team and a group of friends, we received a significant amount of clothes and shoes. Groceries such as flour, macaroni, sugar, coffee, tea, oil and chocolate were bought in a Viennese wholesale shop. Of course, hygiene… Read more →
To keep it that way, we need a new transporter with which we can continue to bring donations and relief supplies to Ukraine. The war is not over yet, many already lost their lives and many had to flee. The cold winter, the dysfunctional energy infrastructure and poor supply put people in need. They urgently need warm clothes, sleeping bags,… Read more →
We were guests of the association HILFE und HOFFNUNG in Vienna. The association is known in Finland as “Eeva Huberin Työn Tuki Ry”. We were a total of 10 people. May 11, 2022 On the day of arrival, Hannu Ylitalo picked us up from the airport and we drove together to a guesthouse in the 1st district. In the canteen… Read more →
Anne Ylitalo and Anita Pylvänäinen-Kröger brought the next busload of relief supplies to the organization People to People in Oradea. We learned from Nicu Gal how much the field of activity of his organization p2p has been expanded through the work for people who have fled from the Ukraine and how urgently aid supplies are now constantly needed. Anne and… Read more →
It was still dark on Thursday, May, 5th at 4:00 am when I started the car and began my journey to the Ukrainian border to bring relief supplies there. I had collected the things to take with me a few days before the trip and stored them at HILFE und HOFFNUNG’s warehouse. A nursing home donated many walking frames and… Read more →
For many years, HILFE und HOFFNUNG has been supporting the Romanian children’s charity people2people (www.people2people.ro) in Oradea (formerly Großwardein, also called the “Gateway to Transylvania” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradea). This city is 500 km from Vienna and 250 km from Budapest, on the Romanian border with Hungary. The head of people2people Nicu Gal recently picked up the relief supplies himself in Vienna.… Read more →
The news about the war in Ukraine kept me very busy from day one. I quickly knew that I couldn’t sit by and watch, I had to do something. I contacted our acquaintance Tanja Berezhnaya in Chernivtsi – a city in western Ukraine, the capital of Bukovina. Tanja has been running the organization “New Family” in Chernivtsi for many years… Read more →
Herminengasse 6, 1020 Wien Alexander Zaidmann Irma Zaidmann Charlotte Zaidmann In December 2016 we reported here about our visitors from America. After this first visit to Vienna, Celia W., the daughter of a Jewish lady who had emigrated from Vienna in 1939, arranged for a commemorative plaque to be attached to the last address of her maternal relatives through the “Stones of Remembrance” association… Read more →
