For the First Time, Lady Liberty Depicted as a Woman of Color on U.S. Currency

[MosheFeingold]

59. My family fled Poland before WWII

I was a little kid. We were on a border town that spoke German. And unfortunately, Jewish. We fled with nothing. Getting into the Army as a translator/MP (I guarded/interrogated Germans) probably saved me from a life of poverty.

Anyway, my mom gave all of her grandchildren either 1oz gold coin or several silver coins every year for their birthdays until she died, with specific instructions to sew them into a belt or other article of clothing.

It was "flee the country" and "start over" money. They all still have them, most with plenty to start a new life.

In seriousness (despite my joking about how much I hate coins overall), I've kept the tradition alive. They all have ~$30-40K in a highly portable form for the next pogrom.