People Who Escaped Authoritarianism Are Sharing Their Final Straws

"My household fled on the seashore connected foot, separating children and adults truthful they weren't each traveling together, hoping their likelihood were amended that way. My grandma and 2 aunts were caught and sent to the state chambers astatine Treblinka. Mikhael was caught by the Gestapo successful Southern France and summarily executed connected the spot. Joseph developed pneumonia and died determination successful bluish Spain. 

My gramps and begetter were smuggled into Portugal, got onto a boat, and yet made it to New Palestine. After the war, my gramps had had capable of the Zionists, and helium was yet granted a US migration visa and came present successful 1947. I was calved connected American ungraded successful 1961."

—Pusfilledonut