Three Touching Stories About Ukrainian Refugees I Witnessed in Poland
They will help you to regain hope that not everything is lost. Yet.
Poland, where I live, received more than 2 million refugees from Ukraine so far. Since the country has 38 million residents, that means the population rocketed 5% in a matter of weeks.
I live in Warsaw, a city that has received nearly 500,000 refugees on its own.
With this influx, the city population rose from 1.8 million to 2.2 million in only three weeks. That means Warsaw overtook Hamburg, Vienna, Minsk, and Paris to become one of the 10 largest cities in Europe.
In less than a month.
While this may not be (yet) the largest refugee influx the World has ever seen, it is the fastest.
Every 8 seconds, a new family of refugees arrives in Poland, and the Polish people are going above and beyond to assist them.
As Stefan Tompson, a respected Polish cinematographer, stated:
Poland does for Ukraine what nobody did for Poland in 1939. […] In 1956, when Hungary rose up against the Soviet Union, thousands of Poles donated their blood to help the Hungarians Uprising. In 2022, when Ukrainians defend their homes, yet again, thousands of Poles have…