The grandmother of Emma Same She was Jewish. She was born in Austria, in the 1930s, and was a victim of the Holocaust. She lost her parents, her twin brothers and her aunt in concentration camps; She was alone. A Catalan couple adopted her and she moved to Barcelona, where she put down roots and started her own family. Emma used to resort to her grandmother when he was asked where his altruistic streak came from, why he dedicated himself body and soul to humanitarian aid. “I grew up with that background, feeling what it must be like to be a refugee or an orphan, so I decided to help people in a situation similar to hers,” she said last July 6 in an interview with The JC –The Jewish Chronicle-, the oldest Jewish publication in the world that continues to be published, born in 1841.
Her grandmother, Emma told the journalist Paul Cainer, who was interviewing her about the dangerous humanitarian work she was carrying out in Ukraine, “watched” and “protected her from above.” That’s how she felt.
Emma had the same 32 yearshad founded the NGO in March 2022 Road To Relief to help the Ukrainian population during the war and died last Saturday when the vehicle in which he was traveling was hit by a projectileas announced yesterday Sunday by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, after having received “verbal notification” of the death of the Spanish aid worker and awaiting official confirmation from the Ukrainian authorities.
The NGO run by Emma Igual recounted on its Instagram account what happened last Saturday around 10:00 a.m. The Spanish aid worker, along with three other colleagues from Road To Relief – the German doctor Ruben Mawickthe Swedish volunteer Johan Mathias Tyr and the Canadian volunteer Anthony Tonka Infamy-, they were traveling in a vehicle from their base in Sloviansk to Bakhmut “to assess the needs of civilians caught in the crossfire of the city of Ivanivske.” About five kilometers from Bakhmut, when they were traveling through Chasiv Yar, “the vehicle was attacked by the Russians,” the publication states. The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reports Javier Espinosa, It also assesses the events as an attack by Russian forces, who fired an anti-tank guided missile at the car.
After receiving the impact, the vehicle overturned and caught fire. The NGO, according to its publication on Saturday on Instagram, was able to immediately confirm the death of the Canadian. Tonka and recover her body, but she did not know then about the Spanish woman’s fate. “Emma’s current condition is still unknown,” they conveyed. The other two collaborators, Ruben Mawich and Johan Mathias Thyr, seriously injuredwere transferred to a field hospital.