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World Service,31 Jan 2005,22 mins

The Piano

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Pianist Tessa Uys tells the story of her mother Helga Bassel and how she escaped to South Africa from Berlin and managed to take her Blüthner grand piano with her. Tessa is now taking that piano back to the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Her brother the satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys also comments.

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