Yeva Hrytsak, a ballet student at the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York City, remembers the “unthinkable” phone call she received on February 24, 2022, from her family in Ukraine four days after arriving in Switzerland, where she was temporarily studying at Zurich Dance Academy – a phone call that threw her life into turmoil. Hrytsak, 17, was some 1,200 miles from her hometown – Dnipro – with her family suddenly engulfed by war. “What if I cannot see them again? And I just started to cry,” she told CNN. “I just I didn’t know what to do. How can I help, what can I do? I felt like a little girl.”