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Forward. katya is hosting alah and leesa after their terrifying journey out of ukraine. they grow emotional recalling the last three weeks including 24 hours on a train that came under fire near kyiv. >> translator: we were told to turn off our phones and turn off the lights. so you understand how scary it all was, that even small children 2 or 3 years old, they understood that something terrible was going on and even they were silent. they were afraid. we lay like that for an hour and a half each on top of each other. >> reporter: their family ripped apart by war. leesa and her mom forced to ...

Made it to poland and soon onto the plane to tel aviv. for now, ala and liza say they feel safe taken in by katya's family like ala's did for victor so many years ago. >> this bonding -- this bond of helping people. it's -- it's just normal. it should be because if you do a good thing, it will be back to you in one way or -- or another. >> reporter: hadas gold, cnn, israel. >> beautiful story. want to help people in ukraine with shelter, food, and water? just go to cnn.com/impact. there, you are going to find several links to several vetted organizations that are working on the ground there. ...

Ukraine. um, we are welcoming state. we are a welcoming people. we are a nation of immigrants. we are a state -- a state that was built by immigrants. >> some of the people who fled their homes in ukraine are finding safety in israel, including a woman and her daughter with with unique historical ties to that country. cnn's hadas gold reports. >> reporter: for hours, katya waited anxiously for two ukrainian refugees to emerge from tel aviv's airport. finally, she spots them. it's a warm embrace but before today, they had never met. katya is a researcher at jerusalem's holocaust memorial and mu...