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The Piano

Pianist Tessa Uys tells the story of her mother Helga Bassel and how she escaped to South Africa from Berlin and managed to take her Bl眉thner grand piano with her. Tessa is now taking that piano back to the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Her brother the satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys also comments.

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22 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project