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At 3½ years old, Oliwia Dabrowska only needed a single scene to inspire hope, embody despair and forever vault herself into cinematic history.

Twenty-nine years later, she’s taking inspiration from her role as “the girl in the red coat” from “Schindler’s List,” Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film about the Holocaust, aiming once again to show that war devastates even the innocent — this time, through raising money and volunteering to help Ukrainian refugees.

“I thought that, because of this symbol, I could speak to more people, I could involve more people — people who don’t know me as me, but they know I played this little girl in the red coat,” she told The Washington Post from her home in Krakow, Poland.

Dabrowska never expected war to break out, so Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine stunned her into inaction for three or four days. When she emerged from the fog, fear followed, she said, until a conversation with a friend in the United States steeled her and gave her courage.