Oliwia Dabrowska: Actress who played 'girl in the red coat' in 'Schindler's List' is now helping Ukrainian refugees
Oliwia Dabrowska, who played a three-year-old in Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic Schindler's List, was the only flash of color in the black-and-white Oscar winner. She has become a real-life hero by organizing aid for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country. In 1943, her portrayal, a little Jewish girl, was the trigger for the rescue of almost 1,200 Jews bound for Nazi death camps.
Oliwia, 32, from Krakow, Poland, has embraced Oskar Schindler's example and is now assisting refugees escaping war-torn Ukraine. On social media, she said that she was organizing a group of volunteers who are assisting refugees as they approach the Polish border. She claims she has already found homes for 10 families and has arranged for hundreds more to be relocated to Poland's big cities.
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Oliwia shared a selfie of herself at the border, wearing a yellow high-vis jacket and surrounded by coaches. She said she was live-streaming on Instagram, "I don't wait for things and no one from our group of volunteers wants to hear thank you, we just do our job. The people need help and we give them help. I really care about every single person on the border. I found a home for ten families, also… I can't count how many transports for refugees from the border to mostly Krakow…and other places in Poland. I will do everything I can, I will never forget these people, those faces, those eyes, I will never forget what I've seen. You can't prepare for that, you can only imagine there will be suffering people, children, old people, the sick."
There is no shouting or sobbing at the border, according to Oliwia. "They scream inside and this is what I can't forget. And if I need to do this as the girl in the red coat, let it be," she said. Oliwia said her car broke down last week and she had to stay at home for three days, but she was back at the border on Wednesday, March 30.
She said, "We wanted to go to the border to help, but I was helping from my home, I was coordinating a group of volunteers on my cell (phone)." Hundreds of letters of support have been sent to the former starlet from all over the world. She also claims to be working on a project with a charitable organization to raise funds for displaced refugees.
Olivia explains, "Helping at the border is one thing but the people here need help, they need homes, they need work, they need schools for their children. Wish me luck because it's a lot of work. I'm tired, I'm exhausted, but I'm still full of energy to help."