WüLFRATH, GERMANY( NYTIMES)-Hibaja Maai gave birth three days after arriving in Germany. She had fled the bombs that destroyed her home in Syria and crossed the black waters of the Mediterranean on a rickety boat with her three young children.... " She gave us a roof over our heads, and she gave a future to our children.... We love her like a mother." Chancellor Angela Merkel is stepping down after her replacement is chosen following Germany's Sept 26 election....