Speakers: Kavita Puri, Simon May

Philosopher and author Simon May joins us to discuss his powerfully moving family memoir, taking on questions of home and belonging that continue to press in on us today. Most Jews living in Hitler’s Germany faced emigration or deportation to concentration camps but there was also the much rarer route: self-concealment in the shadow of the Third Reich, denial of your origins to the point where you manage to erase almost all consciousness of it and refuse to believe that you are Jewish. Simon, who was forbidden from identifying as Jewish, German or British, reveals the very different trajectories taken by his mother and two aunts as grappled with what they felt to be a lethal heritage. In conversation with broadcaster and Partition Voices author Kavita Puri.