‘Everything we can’: Polish border city throws its doors open to desperate Ukrainians fleeing war
CHELM, Poland – According to Jewish folklore, this hardscrabble town 15 miles from the Ukraine border was created after God entrusted an angel with a sack full of unwise souls. The angel tripped, and they all tumbled out in one place: Chelm.
True or not, the convoys of buses and trains that steadily arrive with refugees from war-torn Ukraine prove that Chelm is anything but a place full of fools.