Rabbi Refael Kruskal is the head of charity that runs orphanages in Odesa. He feared that Russia was going to launch an attack on Ukraine so he started planning.
When the first missile landed close to an orphanage he told the children to grab their teddy bears and toys and bundled them on to buses.
After driving for over a week, two hundred and seventy children arrived in a small Romanian holiday resort on the Black Sea.
A year on we hear how the community have built a new life until they can return home.
Listen to the episode on RN Breakfast with Patricia Karvelas.