Refugees from Syria garnered the headlines in recent months, but they are far from the first people to flee war and oppression.
The end of World War II also created large numbers of refugees, including citizens of the Baltic republics escaping the new control from Stalin's USSR.
Hillevi Ruumet was among them, as a little girl fleeing Estonia with her family.
She tells the story of a long and involved flight to freedom in her memoir Under Fate's Wing.
Ruumet lives in Ashland; she visits the studio with a shorter version of her story.
An Ashland appearance is set for Thursday, January 7th at 7 PM at Bloomsbury Booksin Ashland.