SAN JOSE, Calif. — The night Russian bombs began falling, Dr. Ulia Gosart was 6,000 miles from her native Ukraine.
She had lived in the United States for three decades — but after the war began one year ago, one of the first calls she made was to her childhood library in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy.
“I felt like, if I don’t do anything, I cannot go on,” said Gosart, an assistant professor at San Jose State University’s School of Information. “I knew I could do something to benefit the library, the city and Ukraine in my own way.”