This paper reflects on post-memories of the children to political refugees escaping the Nazi-terror and coming to Sweden in the 1930s. While the parent generation was fleeing continental Europe and crossing the border to Sweden as grown-ups, the children generation has no conscious memories of the border crossing. Nevertheless, both the parental decision to flee and the parental narratives of the event have had a decisive influence on the children generation who today is confronted with the boarder crossing event as decisive turning point in their family history.