1. Early 2026: our aid to victims of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine
From January to May 2026, our association, Ad Pacem, continued to support those affected by the war in Ukraine. Our aid comprised both humanitarian deliveries and targeted medical and infrastructure support.
Our main projects were as follows:
Humanitarian aid deliveries
Members of our Ad Pacem association donated clothing, shoes and bed linen, which we sent to refugee reception centres in Dnipro (=> 22 and 27 February 2026: aid sent to Dnipro), to the Greek Catholic parish in Berezhany (=> 21 and 25 February 2026: aid sent to Berezhany (western Ukraine)), and to the shelter for mothers and children in Ivano-Frankivsk (=> Clothing for Ivano-Frankivsk).
Medical aid for the military hospital in Kyiv
Medical supplies were sent on a regular basis, including dressings, single-use syringes, plasters of various types and sizes, surgical masks, protective gowns, catheters, disinfectants, painkillers, orthoses and other emergency supplies (=> Medical aid from Luxembourg to Kyiv (January 2026), 31 January and 4 February 2026: Aid to the Kyiv Military Hospital).
Support for the “Hospitallers”
Over the course of the year, power banks and multivitamin supplements were purchased for the “Hospitallers”, a Ukrainian association of volunteer doctors and nurses who provide first aid to wounded soldiers just behind the front line (=> Our association “Ad Pacem” continues to support aid workers who save lives on the front line every day).
Support for the diagnostic centre in Bucha
The necessary equipment was purchased for the physiotherapy room at the diagnostic centre (=> In April 2026, Ad Pacem provided vital support to the counselling and diagnostic centre in Bucha).
Support for the shelter in Ivano-Frankivsk
We also funded the replacement of the doors at the shelter for mothers and children in Ivano-Frankivsk (=> 5 doors for the women’s and children’s shelter in Ivano-Frankivsk (Western Ukraine)).
2. Invitation – Sunday 7 June 2026, from 3.00 pm to 5.30 pm: guided tour in Thil (F), near the Luxembourg border
We invite you to a guided tour in Thil, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, at the site of the former forced labour camp established by the Nazi occupiers during the Second World War.
In March 1942, a train brought Soviet women to the Errouville camp (F). Every day at five o’clock in the morning, the five or six hundred women had to go to the Thil labour camp (F) to load blocks of iron ore onto the mine cars that carried them out of the mine. In June 1944, eight hundred Hungarian Jews, all metalworkers, were transferred from Auschwitz and Dora to the Thil camp. In the mine’s underground tunnels, they were forced to manufacture V1 flying bombs. Thil is also the site of the escape of thirty-seven Soviet women who joined the French Resistance.
To learn more about the history of these men and women, we invite you to join the guided tour we are organising on Sunday 7 June 2026 in Thil. We will meet at 3.00 pm in the car park of the new Thil cemetery, below the former camp.
For organisational reasons, please register by email at [email protected] by 5 June. Participation is free of charge.
We look forward to seeing many of you on 7 June in Thil and send you our best regards.
Claude Pantaleoni
Chairman Ad Pacem servandam