A kidnap, a betrayal, and a letter that tore open the past

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Alegra Mizrahi’s parents split up soon after she was born in 1930s Palestine, which was then under British rule. Alegra’s earliest memory is being snatched from her grandmother’s garden in Jerusalem when she was three years old. After some months she was reunited with her mother who remarried and settled in England. Here Alegra was told never to tell anyone she was Jewish or even think about her absent father. She never got the feeling she truly belonged. Then a chain of events on her 40 birthday took Alegra back to her homeland and to a part of her family, and a love, she had thought entirely lost. She has written a memoir called Searching for Alegra. Presented by Asya Fouks Produced by Sarah Kendal Get in touch: [email protected] or WhatsApp +44 330 678 2707 (Photo: Alegra Mizrahi. Credit: Courtesy of Alegra Mizrahi)