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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 4: My Grandma Olga’s Holocaust story: From Hitler's Vienna to Birmingham's Freedom
Description: Dov Forman and her great-grandmother Lily Ebert have co-written a book, “Lily’s Promise” about her Holocaust story. But 35 years before, I recorded the same idea with my own grandma.Grandma Olga’s recorded voice and when and where we recounted her life story will always be my most treasured episode.This is her eyewitness testimony of leaving Nazi-occupied Vienna for a new and as yet, uncharted home in the UK.She rebuilt her life in Birmingham where I grew up and where back in 1984, we recorded a chat on cassette in her front ro...