Keys: A Troubled Inheritance

About Keys: A Troubled Inheritance

An epic journey to uncover a Holocaust inheritance leads relentlessly to discovering a Nakba inheritance: two catastrophes that are very different, but very connected. Can they both be heard and understood? With personal testimony, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. Read more at https://mikejoseph.wales/keys and hear all episodes at https://balfourproject.org/keys or wherever you get your podcasts.

Publisher

Mike Joseph

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jul 2023

Latest episode

16 Jan 2025

Latest episodes

15 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Jan 2025

   Waiting for the end

   Gaza journalist Sami abu Salem shares a haunting account of life under siege, detailing the relentless bombardment and loss of life in Deir al Balah, Gaza, as he and his family cower under Israel's military aggression.

2. 

   25 May 2024

   Escaping Rafah: a Palestinian on the run

   Sami abu Salem, fleeing south down Gaza with his family, pursued by the Israeli war machine---bombs, drones, rockets, snipers---finds himself in Rafah. He reports here to Mike Joseph, who is chronicling Sami's plight for the Balfour Project

3. 

   18 Dec 2023

   Keys Gaza Special Reporting Under Fire

   Credits Reporter Sami Abu Salem Presenter Mike Joseph Pictures Sami Abu Salem Images Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Music Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor - Micha Wink PRODUCTION Mike Joseph Producer Zac Ware Sound Editor Pamela Koehne-Drube Audience and Web Advisor

4. 

   8 Nov 2023

   S1E10 CAN HOLOCAUST VINDICATE OCCUPATION?

   This double episode closes the first season of Keys. With the Hamas invasion and massacre of October 7 2023 leading to the 2023 Israel-Gaza War, this episode brings its historical understanding to the cruel events that are unfolding as we work. We reveal that the horror that fills the news every day has its roots deep in the history of Israel-Palestine. UN Secretary-General António Guterres reminded the world that “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum”. This special episode shows how the deeds and decisions of the past are projected on to the screen of today. If we know our history, can that help us to escape it? PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of Kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Music Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor - Micha Wink Sources Eulogy for Ro’i Rothberg by Moshe Dayan, Avnei Derekh, Tel Aviv 1976, p191; q. in Zertal, Idith, Israel’s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood, Cambridge University Press 2005, p180 Universal International News, 6 August 1956, Suez Crisis Theodor Meron, A life of learning, American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No 65, Pittsburgh, 9 May 2008. Memorandum by Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Theodor Meron) to Political Secretary to the Israeli Prime Minister, 18 Sep 1967 Israeli Kahan Commission Report is main source for the Israel-Falange history. Its Appendix can be accessed at: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4887715-Kahan-Commission-Appendix-Complete-English.html Ben Gurion, speaking to the Israeli Cabinet, May 24, April 26, May 7, 1953, Israel State Archives; quoted in Tom Segev, A State at Any Cost, 2018, p512 PRODUCTION Mike Joseph Producer Zac Ware Sound Editor Pamela Koehne-Drube Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips SPEAKERS AND CAST in programme order Sami Abu Salem, interviewed by Mike Joseph James Stewart voicing Moshe Dayan, Theodor Meron, BBC World Service Newsreader, Baruch Ben Meir Rabbi Dr Gerhard Graf voiced by Mark Levene Lilli Gold voiced by Christine Willison Hoda Khoury, interviewed by Mike Joseph Primo Levi voiced by Andrea Brondino António Guterres, UN Secretary-General Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to UN

5. 

   1 Nov 2023

   S1E9 HOW TO BECOME A REFUGEE

   How do people become refugees? What’s it like? Mike Joseph’s aunt became a refugee on her 10th birthday. This is the story of comfortable family life transformed in an instant, narrated by the family’s only survivors. Yet even refugees are not the most unfortunate. Some are trapped, unable to escape, awaiting their fate. In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of Kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Music Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor - Micha Wink PRODUCTION Mike Joseph Producer Zac Ware Sound Editor Pamela Koehne-Drube Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips SPEAKERS AND CAST in programme order Lilli Gold interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education http://sfi.usc.edu/ Peter Kirsten as Leipzig policeman Rosa Gold interviewed by Mike Joseph George May as Israel Gold

6. 

   25 Oct 2023

   S1E8 2nd CLASS IN POLAND, 1st CLASS IN PALESTINE

   In 1938 Britain and the USA call an international conference to rescue Jewish refugees from Hitler. The world refuses to open its doors, a humanitarian disaster that clears the way for Hitler’s Final Solution. But astonishingly, Zionists attending the conference see this as an achievement. How could that be? Episode 8 of KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance released on 25 October 2023, and now available on all platforms. In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of Kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Music Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor - Micha Wink PRODUCTION Mike Joseph Producer Zac Ware Sound Editor Pamela Koehne-Drube Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips SPEAKERS AND CAST in programme order James Stewart as Joseph Goebbels and voice of Der Stürmer George May as Israel Gold Lilli Gold interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education http://sfi.usc.edu/ Andrea Brondino as Monsignor Giuseppe di Meglio Richard Tebboth as David Ben Gurion Rosa Gold interviewed by Mike Joseph Alice Gold as young Lilli Gold Mick Napier as Henryk Ehrlich Peter Kirsten as Leipzig policeman

7. 

   18 Oct 2023

   S1E7 BRITAIN BOOSTS ZIONISM

   In Episode 7, when Nazi Germany excludes Jews from citizenship, Israel Gold, Mike Joseph’s grandfather, is forced to consider emigrating to Palestine. He learns Hebrew and Arabic, because his kind of Zionism seeks a bi-national state of all its inhabitants. But in 1937, the British Government reveals a different plan: a Jewish state, with its native Palestinian population removed by force. How will Zionism react, and what will Israel Gold do? In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Music Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor - Micha Wink Ba’a M’nucha, Nathan Alterman & Kurt Weill - Gail Stewart soprano, Mike Joseph piano PRODUCTION Mike Joseph Producer Zac Ware Sound Editor Pamela Koehne-Drube Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips SPEAKERS AND CAST in programme order Lilli Gold interviewed by USC Shoah Foundation, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education http://sfi.usc.edu/ George May as Israel Gold Rosa Gold interviewed by Mike Joseph Richard Tebboth as David Ben Gurion

8. 

   11 Oct 2023

   S1E6 UKRAINE’S INCONVENIENT HISTORY

   Nationalism comes under the spotlight in Episode Six: Israel Gold, Mike Joseph’s grandfather, adds a four-kilo dictionary to his soldier’s kit bag in November 1917. We discover why. Then, without knowing it, Israel Gold becomes Ukrainian, an identity which will through time reveal the strengths of multiculturalism and the perils of ethnic nationalism. In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of Kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images & music Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Micha Wink Lilli Gold, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education  http://sfi.usc.edu/ PRODUCTION Mike Joseph                    Producer Zac Ware                         Sound Editor Micha Wink                      Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Pamela Koehne-Drube      Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips CAST in programme order Terry Dimmick as car park attendant George May as Israel Gold

9. 

   4 Oct 2023

   S1E5 THE QUEEN AND THE CLAIMANT

   Mike Joseph’s mother petitions the Queen for help to recover her Nazi-plundered house from a resistant Germany. The Queen’s response unlocks a wave of British government action, which escalates towards an international crisis. In this episode, a very personal family story becomes a highly political dispute. In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists.In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city.Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips, James Stewart Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images & music Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem Micha Wink Lilli Gold, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education  http://sfi.usc.edu/ Brahms, German Requiem, The Holden Consort Orchestra and Choir http://ml.cs.colorado.edu/~ben/Brahms/ (http://ml.cs.colorado.edu/~ben/Brahms/) Licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en) license PRODUCTION Mike Joseph   Producer Zac Ware   Sound Editor Micha Wink   Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Pamela Koehne-Drube Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips CAST in programme order Christine Willison as Lilli Gold James Stewart as Robert Fellowes, voices of UK Foreign Office, Martin Gilbert, British Ambassador to Germany.

10. 

    27 Sept 2023

    S1E4 NAZI JOURNALIST DEFIES JEWISH JOURNALIST

    What do you say to an old Nazi? With this question, Mike Joseph’s daughter Asha opens an episode in which we hear what Mike does say when suddenly, in 1991 he encounters the Nazi who stole his mother’s house fifty years earlier. The old Nazi shouts him down. Then Mike finds that he is not the only voice in newly-reunited Germany refusing to return property stolen by the Nazis. In this epic journey, Mike sets out to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, but is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out that the two different catastrophes are more connected than he thought possible. In 2023, can both stories be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips, James Stewart Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt, Alex Dunai, Markus Hartmann, Burkhardt Kolbmuller, Svitlana Kovalyk, Itamar Shapira, Nadia Slobodyan, Hannah Kleinfeld, Atef Alshaer Images & music Lilli Gold, Mike Joseph, Holger Jackisch, Sami Abu Salem Lilli Gold, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education  http://sfi.usc.edu/ Dresden Bombing: Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1994-041-07, Dresden, zerstörtes Stadtzentrum.jpg   Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1994-041-07 / Unknown author / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5483604 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5483604) Licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en) license. Foreign & Commonwealth Office main building.jpg, created: circa 2014 QS:P,+2014-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0. Klaus Kinkel: Tohma, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Helmut Kohl: © European Communities, 1996 / EC, Photo:  Christian Lambiotte Otto Lambsdorff: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F046792-0029 / Wegmann, Ludwig / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons Hinrich Lehmann-Grube: Axel Hindemith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Brahms, German Requiem, The Holden Consort Orchestra and Choir http://ml.cs.colorado.edu/~ben/Brahms/ (http://ml.cs.colorado.edu/~ben/Brahms/) Licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en) license PRODUCTION Mike Joseph - Producer, Zac Ware - Sound Editor, Micha Wink - Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor, Pamela Koehne-Drube - Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips CAST in programme order Daniel Ratthei as Burkhardt Kolbmuller [German] Werner Bauer as Ralph Dippmann [German] James Stewart as Ralph Dippmann [English] Christel Stoecker-Danby voicing confiscation and conveyance to Dippmann [German], James Stewart [English] James Stewart as Holger Jackisch and voices of UK Foreign Office, Leipzig City Council and Federal German Government, Daily Telegraph Klaus Riekemann as Hinrich Lehmann-Grube and Christian Jacke Bruno Bubna-Kasteliz as Klaus Kinkel and Otto Lambsdorff Christine Willison as Lilli Gold

11. 

    20 Sept 2023

    S1E3 RESISTING RESTITUTION

    In 1943, while Mike’s mother’s family were being killed, a Nazi journalist obtained Mike’s mother’s home, the Leipzig house from which the SS had expelled them a few years earlier. In 1951, instead of returning the home to Mike’s mother, East Germany stole it again, and handed it back to the Nazi journalist. Now it is 40 years later, 1991, and Mike arrives in newly reunited Germany to try finally to recover his mother’s house. But he encounters official obstruction and resistance. And then he discovers the Nazi journalist is still alive, and still holding his wartime plunder. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips. Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Hannah Kleinfeld Atef Alshaer Images Lilli Gold Mike Joseph Holger Jackisch Sami Abu Salem PRODUCTION Mike Joseph                     Producer Zac Ware                          Sound Editor Micha Wink                       Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Pamela Koehne-Drube      Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips CAST in programme order Wera Hobhouse as Marie Nummer Christel Stoecker-Danby as Leipzig Housing Manager Kerstin Barthelmes as Frau Jordan, Leipzig Property Claims Officer James Stewart as Ralph Dippmann Klaus Riekemann as Aron Adlerstein Melissa Pawelski     as Suzannah Kucharski Clemens Hofer as Peter Kirsten Christel Stoecker-Danby voicing confiscation and conveyance to Dippmann James Stewart voicing conveyance to Dippmann

12. 

    6 Sept 2023

    S1E2 KEYS OF EXILE AND LOSS

    In the second episode of Keys, as the Second World War ends, people long for better times, and the United Nations does something about it, declaring genocide a crime against humanity, declaring slavery an abuse of human rights, declaring asylum and freedom of thought to be human rights, as well as the right to own property and not have it stolen. But two states immediately deny that right to refugees from their terror. Mike’s mother is one of many thousands, denied that right. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS for this episode Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Asha Phillips, Lilli Gold, Rose Gold. Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt Alex Dunai Markus Hartmann Burkhardt Kolbmuller Svitlana Kovalyk Itamar Shapira Nadia Slobodyan Audio sources The Hundred Year House, BBC 1999 Images Lilli Gold Mike Joseph Holger Jackisch Sami Abu Salem PRODUCTION Mike Joseph - Producer Zac Ware - Sound Editor Micha Wink - Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Pamela Koehne-Drube - Audience and Web Advisor PRESENTERS Mike Joseph Asha Phillips CAST in programme order Terry Dimmick as Car Park Attendant Peter Kirsten as Leipzig Policeman Young Asha Phillips as Dorothea Gold Wera Hobhouse as Marie Nummer Zac Ware as Fritz Grunsfeld James Stewart as Ralph Dippmann [English] Klaus Riekemann as Leipzig Property Administrator [German] Richard Tebboth as Leipzig Property Administrator [English] James Stewart as Wolfgang Vogel [German] Patrick Thomas as Wolfgang Vogel [English]

13. 

    6 Sept 2023

    S1E1 HOLOCAUST JOURNEY CONFRONTS THE NAKBA

    One day in 2006, in a noisy café in Ukraine, Mike thought he had just met a survivor of the Holocaust massacre that destroyed his mother’s family. He turned out also to be a veteran of Israel’s War of Independence, now bitterly rejecting Israel’s occupation of Palestine, telling his family there was no hope and they should leave. This incident, captured in sound, sums up the contradictions Mike discovers in this epic journey. Working to uncover his Holocaust inheritance, he is led relentlessly to discovering his Nakba inheritance. It turns out the two different catastrophes are very connected. But can they both be heard and understood? With unique personal testimony, recordings, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is devised, dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. PLACE NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists. In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city. Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941. Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city. Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the thriving Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place. Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. CREDITS Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Amnon Neumann, Fatima Abu Salem, Sami Abu Salem, Lilli Gold, Rose Gold, Henryk Luft, Moshe Kolesnik, Yehudah ben Baruch, Itamar Shapira, Asha Phillips. Interpreters and Translators Dina Brandt, Alex Dunai, Markus Hartmann, Burkhardt Kolbmuller, Svitlana Kovalyk, Itamar Shapira, Nadia Slobodyan Video sources Lilli Gold, © 1998 USC Shoah Foundation. From the archive of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education  http://sfi.usc.edu/ Israel and West Bank locations by agreement with Boom Cymru TV Cyf. Batorego Cemetery, Ivano-Frankivsk; Henryk Luft; Yad Vashem viewing platform; handmade Israeli flag © Mike Joseph Zochrot Truth Commission session with Amnon Neumann by agreement with Zochrot Images Lilli Gold Mike Joseph Sami Abu Salem PRODUCTION Mike Joseph                     Producer Zac Ware                          Sound Editor Jesse Lawrence                Video Editor Micha Wink                       Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Pamela Koehne-Drube      Audience and Web Advisor Michelle Alderson              Graphic Designer PRESENTERS Mike Joseph & Asha Phillips CAST in programme order Peter Kirsten as Leipzig Policeman Werner Bauer as Ralph Dippmann George May as Israel Gold Andrea Brondino as Henryk Luft

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    17 Jul 2023

    KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance Teaser

    By remembering his family lost in the Holocaust, Mike Joseph encounters the Palestinian Nakba. How do radically different histories connect? Documentary series KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance launches in Wednesday 6th September 2023 An epic journey to uncover a Holocaust inheritance leads relentlessly to discovering a Nakba inheritance: two catastrophes that are very different, but very connected. Can they both be heard and understood? With personal testimony, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists.In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city.Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941.Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city.Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the large Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place.Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Lilli Gold, Henryk Luft, Itamar Shapira, Amnon Neumann, Sami Abu Salem, Fatima Abu Salem, Asha Phillips. PRODUCTION Mike Joseph             Producer Jesse Lawrence        Video Editor Zac Ware                  Sound Editor Micha Wink               Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Michelle Alderson       Graphic Designer Pamela Koehne-Drube  Audience and Web Advisor

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    17 Jul 2023

    KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance Trailer

    By remembering his family lost in the Holocaust, Mike Joseph encounters the Palestinian Nakba. How do radically different histories connect? Documentary series KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance launches in Wednesday 6th September 2023 An epic journey to uncover a Holocaust inheritance leads relentlessly to discovering a Nakba inheritance: two catastrophes that are very different, but very connected. Can they both be heard and understood? With personal testimony, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. NAMES When the place names in Keys get confusing, these notes will help. Mike’s grandparents came from Galicia, a part of eastern Europe on no modern map. Today some of Galicia is southeast Poland, another part is western Ukraine. Galicia no longer exists.In the last century, many of Galicia’s Jews, Ukrainians and Poles also ceased to exist, violently, as their province was repeatedly ruptured by the front lines of two World Wars, genocide and ethnic cleansing. Before 1918, Galicia was the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s most eastern province. Its capital was Lemberg (German) = Lwów (Polish) = Lviv (Ukrainian). Three names, but one city.Further south, Mike’s grandfather grew up in Stanislau (German); left Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1918 for a better life in Germany; deported back to Stanisławów (Polish) in 1938, which became Stanislaviv (Ukrainian) in 1939; killed in Stanislau (German) in 1941.Before Mike first visited that city in 1999, the Soviet Union renamed it Ivano-Frankovsk (Russian). Today the place where he found his grandfather’s surviving colleagues and allies is called Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukrainian). Five names, but one city.Fatima Abu Salem grew up in the large Palestinian village of Burayr, at crossroads leading to Gaza, Hebron and Beersheba. Today a few ruins of Burayr are surrounded by the fields of kibbutz Bro’r Hayyil. Two names, but one place.Place names matter. How we name places reveals our own histories, identities and yearnings. Testimony Testimony and commentary by Mike Joseph, Lilli Gold, Henryk Luft, Itamar Shapira, Amnon Neumann, Sami Abu Salem, Fatima Abu Salem, Asha Phillips. PRODUCTION Mike Joseph             Producer Jesse Lawrence        Video Editor Zac Ware                  Sound Editor Micha Wink               Keys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor Michelle Alderson       Graphic Designer Pamela Koehne-Drube  Audience and Web Advisor

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