Opinion

My mother fled Ukraine in World War II. She says this is worse.

Alexa Schriempf, a writer in Alexandria, is working on a memoir that includes her mother’s experience.

More than 5 million people have fled Ukraine since Moscow’s brutal invasion began, the United Nations reported last week. I wonder how many of the children forced from their homes — some escaping by train, others on foot — will see their fathers again? How many will become war orphans, like my mother? How many will go on to raise a child who has a ghost family, like me?