Some crawled through barbed wire. Others swam the treacherous Danube. A few hid in the ships that departed the ports. The daring ones seized planes and flew beyond the Iron Curtain. All of them hoped to escape Communist Romania. Those who succeeded faced the harshness of being a political refugee. My research will examine the flow of Romanians that, from late 40 to early 50s, fled the country, analyzing its reasons, its numbers, its paths and its places of interment. And, mostly, its human dramas.