"Yes, Poland, Romunia - they took money from zionist organization for allowing the jews to go - they selled their inhabitants. Do you see, what's going on? A government, wich is making a commodity out of inhabitants of the country - not out of all, of course, only out of those especially liked by this government."
Yeah. That's basically how my family got out of Romania. But now it gets interesting. My father was a (secular) Jew; my mother was Christian. According to the xtians, I was a "dirty jew." According to the U.S. jews, I was Christian (mother's religion determines the religion of the child).
Because of this, we did not emigrate to Israel, but to the U.S. where the only religious discrimination I ever experienced was from jews who judged me verboten wife material for their sons.
Frankly, I've had a bellyful of both these religions.
Joanna