Ruby's parents were Jewish Austrians, who fled Vienna in the 1930s.
Unfortunately, the story of persecution and hardship was pretty continuous throughout the episode. Ruby's family struggled through some of the worst times in history, and perhaps it went a little way to explain her parents and their problems to her.
Ruby's parents travelled, as refugees, to the USA. They were lucky in being able to get visas, as the US (and many other countries) were less than friendly to those fleeing the persecution.
Their marriage, and Ruby's childhood by extension, was deeply unhappy. We can only speculate that her parent's lives were altered, and damaged, to a great extent by their experiences of persecution, torture, and fear. If you put people through hell, they aren't always going to be ok afterwards.
Ruby also found answers about mental health problems within her family.
She seemed to have found the process quite beneficial, joking that she didn't need to spend so much money on therapy when she could've just done genealogy!
This was a striking episode, rounding off the series similarly to how it began (with Charles Dance's amazing family revelations.)
Hopefully it won't be too long before we get another series!
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