Heidi Palmer speaks publicly for the first time about her experiences fleeing Europe and settling in America. Most of her family left Vienna for Sweden right before the Anschluss, and was able to get into the United States without papers in 1940. Her father crossed the Atlantic to join the family in the midst of World War II, a very perilous undertaking. The family settled in Larchmont, New York, where at the time there were no Jews. Many of her family members were killed in the Holocaust, and her grandmother was the only one of 11 siblings to survive.