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Heart and Soul: Poland's Jews: Caught between, never home

Poland's Jews: Caught between, never home

09/12/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, Poland's Jews: Caught between, never home

What is it like to be a third-generation Jew in present-day Poland?

For centuries, Poland was home to millions of Jews in the heart of Europe. Decades after the horrors of the Holocaust, questions of lost identity have arisen. What is it like to be a third-generation Jew in present-day Poland? We meet Małgorzata, who was born into a Jewish family in the late 1980s. She says being a Jew in Poland today means people think you are neither truly Jewish, nor Polish. She is just one of millions of third-generation Jewish people across Central Europe attempting to make sense of an identity that cannot be changed, reversed or erased.

Producer: Bartosz Panek
Presenter: John Beauchamp 
A Free Range and Overcoat Media Co-production for BBC World Service

(Photo: Małgorzata, with kind permission)

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