Keys: A Troubled Inheritance

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

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

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/  Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic 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. 

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 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Germany 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/  Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic 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

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

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]

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

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

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