ISIS forced 250 000 Christian families out of their homes in our village in Iraq. If you didn’t leave your house, you would be killed. They were also taking girls, and those girls never came back.
My sister and I had been trying to get my parents to leave for a while but they had always said they couldn’t leave their family. But when they heard what was happening, we left before they even got to our house. Most people had to leave without any of their possessions but since we had time to prepare, we were able . . .