Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust, with Rosie Whitehouse and Edward Lucas

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🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared ------ One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches—now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse speaks to Edward Lucas about her new book following the footsteps of those secret passengers and uncovering their extraordinary stories—some told for the first time. You can buy the book here or any good book shop: https://bit.ly/3ihjaOO -------------------------- Intelligence Squared+. The world's best speakers. Your questions. £4.99 per month. Intelligence Squared+ will bring you live, interactive events every week on our new online platform. Just like at our real-life events, you’ll be able to put your questions to our speakers, vote in live polls and interact with other members of the audience. Your subscription will give you access to multiple events featuring the world’s top thinkers and opinion formers, including Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, Clive Woodward, Thomas Friedman, Meera Syal and Paloma Faith. For a full list of Intelligence Squared+ events and to subscribe, click here: https://bit.ly/2yfYIfm Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.6	Hello podcast listeners, I'm Connor and welcome to this Friday episode of
1:03.0	Intelligence Squared. This week we were joined by Rosie White House
1:05.9	author of the new book The People on the Beach journeys to freedom after the
1:09.6	Holocaust and she spoke to Edward Lucas columnist at the times about the extraordinary stories of Jews after the Holocaust,
1:17.0	how they had survived, why many still felt unsafe in Europe, and also the lessons from those stories that we need to know today.
1:23.1	It's a really fascinating conversation and if you do enjoy it you can find a link for Rosie's book in the
1:27.5	podcast description. Now let's go to the episode.
1:30.4	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence Square podcast. My guest today is Rosie White House, who I have known since 1981 when we were both helping organize the LSC student solidarity with
1:46.7	solidarity that's Polish solidarity and which I may say Rosa did a great
1:51.6	deal more work than I did. So our friendship goes back a long way,
1:55.2	full disclosure and so does our passionate interest in Eastern Europe. And Eastern Europe is at least partly the scene for Rosie's new book, which I'm going to ask her to explain what it's about.
2:11.0	It's called The people on the beach. Rosie, who are the people?
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