Born in 1947, Lidia Bastianich grew up on the Italian peninsula of Istria which at the time was a region governed by the newly-formed communist Yugoslavia in the wake of WWII. By 1956, Lidia's parents decided they needed to flee. Reserved for refugees seeking political asylum, the Risiera di San Sabba camp served as her family's home for the next two years. As a ten-year-old, Lidia was separated from her father unsure if they would ever be reunited. The U.S. eventually opened up its borders to p