The young couple and their four-year-old daughter were living in an apartment in Kharkiv, 20 miles from the Russian border. Rockets flew overhead. The thunder of explosions and plumes of choking smoke were constant. The parents feared for the safety of their daughter, who after months and months of war, was beginning to remember little else. They had to get out.
Five thousand miles away in Lake Placid, Beth Brunner was frustrated. She wanted to do something to help the
