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“You divide a piece of bread among four children so that they have at least a crumb of bread in their mouths.”

Only my cousin Will was brave enough to take the under on us getting our new hotel space fully operational by last night, but I guess there’s probably a reason he doesn’t make his living in Vegas.

Eight years ago Yana and her family built their own house outside of Mariupol, and when the first explosions of the war began they didn’t pay much attention or “think about it in a serious way.”

We’ve added a 2nd hotel with at least 50 new beds for Ukrainian refugees

I arrived at night by train the first time I ever came to Krakow: April 8, 2005. Thousands of fiery candles illuminated its medieval alleys.

Nadia and Mykola come from small towns on opposite sides of the Dnieper River in southeastern Ukraine

Late at night a knock came at the door

In 2015 Olena Mykhailovska was working as a waitress in Crimea at a restaurant hosting a banquet for none other than Vladimir Putin.

Wednesday night a harried group of ten arrived late in the evening to our hotel for Ukrainian refugees in Krakow – exhausted, grimy, haunted.