Pamela Sztybel’s Sketchbook 13 Previous Next At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started creating a daily illustration based on news headlines from reliable sources. I thought I was done after a year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine last month, I was compelled to begin my project again. This is personal for me—my paternal grandmother was born in Kyiv. She fled to Poland during the Russian Revolution and was forced to flee again, with my grandfather and my then 12-year-old father, three days after the Nazis invaded Poland, in 1939. I wouldn’t be here today, safe, brush in hand, without their courage and the kindness of strangers. Chef José Andrés exemplifies that kindness: his World Central Kitchen is providing hot meals to Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border. You can support his efforts here. April 2, 2022