Ruby Wax's family were forced to fled Vienna after Nazi threat!

Ruby Wax's Jewish parents fled Vienna and the Nazis for America in 1938. 'They took the war with them and brought it to our kitchen,' says the comedian and mental-health campaigner at the start of this remarkable episode.
They raised their only daughter in a dramatically dysfunctional household - Ruby's father was volatile and her mother 'hysterical... screaming in the street.' Ruby wonders if her own mental illness had its origins in her upbringing and the trauma her parents went through, or whether it is in her family's genes.
Ruby journeys to central Europe, where she learns about her parents' flight and the distressing fate of family who remained in Vienna during the war, and she makes a startling discovery about her great-aunt and great-grandmother, which is both harrowing and surprisingly affirming.
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[@roscaines-prentice3888]

My mother left Vienna exactly 4 weeks before Kristelnacht in 1938. After war was declared, she was interned on The Isle of Man for 18months. She always spoke well of her time on internment apart from a shortage of food.

[@J_Gamble]

So sad. Ruby is a warrior.

[@babjah21]

It’s really really sad. Really brings it home - the awfulness of it.

[@loonylinda]

Always loved Ruby..what a tough life shes had with one thing and another. very sad.

[@equatorialjourney4478]

😂…. The guy at the start is utterly bewildered by her humour . ‘ Dental technicians ; that’s so not interesting ‘ 😂😂

[@thehoneyeffect]

she just sounded ungrateful

[@asa1973100]

Ruby Wax is a legend, she’s so underrated and yet she’s one of my best comedic actresses in the United Kingdom

[@Anonom2012]

The explanation point at the end of this video's title is inappropriate and belies the gravitas of the situation.

[@coccinella4107]

*exclamation

[@patrickhobbs96]

*flee, not fled ... You need to follow "force to" with an infinitive of the verb, here "flee", even when the main verb is in the past simple tense. They fled but they were forced to flee.

[@cadavis5314]

To flee - the act of leaving hastily, have fled - having completed the act of fleeing. Who is writing this crap?

[@Dog.eatdog]

They were forced to *fled?* Now try again in English please .....