Commentary: What a Jewish archive in Poland can teach us about Ukrainians’ refugee experience

While I was standing in the Jewish archives in Warsaw, Poland, during a recent humanitarian trip to strengthen programs of protection and safety for refugees from Ukraine, time became quite circular — an evocation of William Faulkner’s adage that “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.” For brought before us were portions of an archive created at great personal risk during the Holocaust by Jewish ghetto residents that laid forth to an indifferent and inattentive world their experiences of fear,