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Series 1: Episode 2

This powerful two-part series follows co-presenters Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha, along with four other families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore how their families’ histories were impacted by the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. For Jews across the world this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. For Palestinians the events of this period, which created over 700,000 refugees, are\nknown as the Nakba, Arabic for the Catastrophe. Through these profoundly moving and deeply personal stories, this series gets to the heart of what happened to people on both sides, as the Middle East was reshaped.\n\nAs the presenters and participants investigate how this time of chaos and upheaval affected their relatives, they discover how their families’\ndestinies were changed forever. Sarah Agha finds out about the circumstances under which her family fled their village in Galilee in 1948, and Rob follows his relative’s journey to escape the horrors of the Holocaust and start a new life in the recently established state of Israel.\n\nIn this episode Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why, when she was a child, her aunts left Egypt for the new state of\nIsrael and a woman who wants to know what happened to her family as her grandfather struggled to hold on to his land and orange groves in\nJaffa.

Source: BBC 2