Searching for freedom after the Holocaust
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🗓️ 19 January 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:46.4 | history magazine. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm Ellie Corthorne. |
| 1:00.9 | Today you'll be hearing from the author and journalist Rosie Whitehouse. |
| 1:04.3 | Rosie's most recent book, The People on the Beach, |
| 1:07.4 | tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who boarded a ship from Italy to Palestine in 1946, taking on the might of the Royal |
| 1:13.8 | Navy in the process. She spoke to BBC History Magazine editor, Rob Atar. |
| 1:19.9 | Rosie, especially in recent times, there have been a large number of books written on the |
| 1:24.5 | Holocaust. But this is a story that, I mean, I certainly haven't |
| 1:27.6 | come across before, and I don't imagine many of our listeners would have done. So how did you |
| 1:31.7 | first discover it? Why do you think it's remained relatively hidden? I was researching a guidebook |
| 1:37.8 | to the Italian Riviera, and I'm interested in post-war Italian history. So I began to click on the names of the towns, |
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