In May 1944, the Crimean Tatars were given fifteen minutes to pack.

In this Dad Tangent, we explore one of the most tragic — and least known— stories of World War II: the forced deportation of an entire people fromtheir homeland. Accused without trial, loaded into freight cars, and sentthousands of miles away, the Crimean Tatars paid the price not for what theyhad done, but for who they were.

From the overnight erasure of a culture to a little girl holding a moldyloaf of bread, this is the story of how history remembers… and how it forgets.

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