Welcome to Kind World from W-B-U-R. I'm Erica Lance.

Rachel Serratty grew up in Boston, and she remembers the day she started to feel like an adult.

She was a college student and visiting her grandmother, Hannah Dubova, outside of Philadelphia.

She had this box of wine and it was like only slightly expired red wine, so we each poured like a cup and we went to sit on her porch and it overlooks this parking lot.

They were there for a reason.

Rachel wanted to hear her grandmother's story.

She knew parts already. Her grandmother was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Chucklesavakia.

My grandmother had so much to say and I don't think that many people asked her questions.

So Rachel started asking and over the next year the two of them sat down for oral histories.

Hannah's health deteriorated that year. At the end of it at age 85, she died.

She left behind a mass of diaries, letters, and photographs,

and Rachel became obsessed with digging deeper into her grandmother's past. She decided

to spend the coming years retracing her grandmother's past. She decided to spend the coming years retracing her

grandmother's footsteps.

Hannah was born in 1925 in Czechoslovakia. Hannah's father owned a shop on Prague's main square when Hitler came to power.

They thought that it could never happen here. Square when Hitler came to power.

They thought that it could never happen here.

That anti-Semitism was just a rumor.

By the time they realized it could happen here, it was too late.

Hannah's family applied to come to the US, but nobody wanted these refugees, soon to be refugees.

Then came a sliver of hope.

The Danish government agreed to take in a set number of

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