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22/08/2020

We hear from five people who have experienced important moments in history, including a Jewish woman who found refuge in Britain after she was transported out of Nazi Germany.

On Witness History, Razia Iqbal introduces us to five people who have experienced important moments in the recent past. We hear from a Jewish woman who found refuge in Britain after she was transported out of Nazi Germany as a child, from a Kremlin insider who describes to us what happened when the Soviet Union restricted the sale of alcohol, and we talk to a witness of the Sri Lankan civil war.

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