By the time she was just eight years old, Sharon Berkowitz had already lived a lifetime of stress and trauma.

She was a young child growing up during the Iranian Revolution.

There was genuine fury here. Thousands of Iranians, most of them young,

rampaged through the streets of Tehran, shouting down with the Shah, death to the Shah.

In 1979, really beginning 1978, the rapid pace at which the country went from, a very peaceful situation to just utter just turmoil.

7,000 have been killed.

Emotions over the dead and the rumors of dead are high.

Protests in the streets, food being rationed.

It really became very evident that we were not safe.

So we left everything and fled as quickly as anybody could get out of a country.

I vividly remember being at the airport.

We were the last plane to leave before Khomeini came.

The airport was incredibly packed.

I remember the whole process of trying to get through security and just the

mass of people that were there and how we got onto the runway, every step of it, the plane

stopped in Kuwait. Because we are Jewish, they threatened to kill my father. It was a layover because they were

trying to take as many people out of Iran as possible and then take us to our final destination,

which was England. The airlines had to intercede on our behalf, so to save my father's life.

And at every juncture, they separate men from women and children

and threaten to kill the men. Now, that type of stress, I think, for so many of us, is just

unimaginable. But thankfully, Sharon and her family did make it safely to their final destination

and eventually settled in Atlanta, Georgia.

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