CreditsReporter Sami Abu SalemPresenter Mike JosephPictures Sami Abu SalemImagesMike JosephSami Abu Salem MusicKeys Theme & Variations on a Bach Prelude in B minor - Micha WinkPRODUCTIONMike Joseph ProducerZac Ware Sound Ed

S1E10 CAN HOLOCAUST VINDICATE OCCUPATION?

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 1m

This double episode closes the first season of Keys. With the Hamas invasion and massacre of October 7 2023 leading to the 2023 Israel-Gaza War, this episode brings its historical understanding to the cruel events that are unfolding as we wor

S1E9 HOW TO BECOME A REFUGEE

Nov 1st, 2023 38m

How do people become refugees? What’s it like? Mike Joseph’s aunt became a refugee on her 10th birthday. This is the story of comfortable family life transformed in an instant, narrated by the family’s only survivors. Yet even refugees are not

S1E8 2nd CLASS IN POLAND, 1st CLASS IN PALESTINE

Oct 25th, 2023 28m 46s

In 1938 Britain and the USA call an international conference to rescue Jewish refugees from Hitler. The world refuses to open its doors, a humanitarian disaster that clears the way for Hitler’s Final Solution. But astonishingly, Zionists attend

S1E7 BRITAIN BOOSTS ZIONISM

Oct 18th, 2023 28m 57s

In Episode 7, when Nazi Germany excludes Jews from citizenship, Israel Gold, Mike Joseph’s grandfather, is forced to consider emigrating to Palestine. He learns Hebrew and Arabic, because his kind of Zionism seeks a bi-national state of all its

S1E6 UKRAINE’S INCONVENIENT HISTORY

Oct 11th, 2023 29m 44s

Nationalism comes under the spotlight in Episode Six: Israel Gold, Mike Joseph’s grandfather, adds a four-kilo dictionary to his soldier’s kit bag in November 1917. We discover why. Then, without knowing it, Israel Gold becomes Ukrainian, an id

S1E5 THE QUEEN AND THE CLAIMANT

Oct 4th, 2023 32m

Mike Joseph’s mother petitions the Queen for help to recover her Nazi-plundered house from a resistant Germany. The Queen’s response unlocks a wave of British government action, which escalates towards an international crisis. In this episode,

S1E4 NAZI JOURNALIST DEFIES JEWISH JOURNALIST

Sep 27th, 2023 36m 5s

What do you say to an old Nazi? With this question, Mike Joseph’s daughter Asha opens an episode in which we hear what Mike does say when suddenly, in 1991 he encounters the Nazi who stole his mother’s house fifty years earlier. The old Nazi s

S1E3 RESISTING RESTITUTION

Sep 20th, 2023 29m 43s

In 1943, while Mike’s mother’s family were being killed, a Nazi journalist obtained Mike’s mother’s home, the Leipzig house from which the SS had expelled them a few years earlier. In 1951, instead of returning the home to Mike’s mother, Eas

S1E1 HOLOCAUST JOURNEY CONFRONTS THE NAKBA

Sep 6th, 2023 35m 58s

One day in 2006, in a noisy café in Ukraine, Mike thought he had justmet a survivor of the Holocaust massacre that destroyed his mother’s family. He turned out also to be a veteran of Israel’s War of Independence, now bitterly rejecting Israel

S1E2 KEYS OF EXILE AND LOSS

Sep 6th, 2023 34m 9s

In the second episode of Keys, as the Second World War ends, people long for better times, and the United Nations does something about it, declaring genocide a crime against humanity, declaring slavery an abuse of human rights, declaring asylum

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KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance Teaser

Jul 17th, 2023 49s

By remembering his family lost in the Holocaust, Mike Joseph encounters the Palestinian Nakba. How do radically different histories connect?Documentary series KEYS: A Troubled Inheritance launches in Wednesday 6th September 2023An epic journe