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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- Wed 29 Sep 2021 09:30BBC Radio 4
- Wed 29 Sep 2021 20:45BBC Radio 4
- Sat 2 Oct 2021 05:45BBC Radio 4
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