Betty Grinshtein stood on a train platform just over the Ukraine border, waiting for the next refugees to arrive in Poland. Out stepped an elderly man wearing slippers, struggling to walk.
“It was getting cold, and he didn’t have boots,” recalled Ms. Grinshtein, a Point Reyes Station resident who spent three months volunteering at the border last year. “He was shellshocked.”
Ms. Grinshtein was a volunteer for the Kharkiv and Przemysl Project, or KHARPP, which…