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Leaving Your Homeland

Eva Hnizdo reflects on the impulses which drive people to emigrate, drawing on her Czech Jewish family's experience of the Holocaust and her own as a political asylum seeker.

Eva Hnizdo reflects on the impulses which drive people to emigrate - or not, drawing on her Czech Jewish family's experience of the Holocaust and her own as a political asylum seeker. "Whenever members of my family thought about emigrating but didn't actually leave, they made a mistake, sometimes paying for it with their lives. In my case, some might say I made a mistake not to stay. Was it worth the struggle?"
Presenter: Olly Mann
Producer: Sheila Cook

Eva Hnizdo is a former GP and author of "Why Didn't They Leave?"

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21 minutes

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Sat 2 Oct 2021 05:45

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  • Wed 29 Sep 2021 09:30
  • Wed 29 Sep 2021 20:45
  • Sat 2 Oct 2021 05:45

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