Worlds Apart at the Highgate Festival
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Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switzerland. Marcus moves east, inspired by his Communist beliefs. In Moscow, he is arrested and exiled. They would never see each other again.
A hundred years later, Marcus’ great-granddaughter, Nadia Ragozhina, rediscovers the missing part of her broken family. Could she piece together the stories hidden for generations?
Join Nadia Ragozhina as she talks about what brought her to writing the story of her family and how she travelled the world searching for the clues that helped her piece together the stories hidden for generations.
Nadia will be in coversation with Jonathan Charles, former BBC News presenter and Director of Communications at EBRD