Our House: Stories of the Holocaust

Lisa Lipman talks to journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville about her BBC radio documentary Our House, in which she meets Berliners who have  researched the history of the Jewish families who once lived in their homes. Their discoveries are an intimate and moving portrait of lives that were turned upside down and offer a new way of honouring the memory of German Jews who lost everything in the Holocaust. First broadcast on the BBC World Service on Holocaust Memorial Day 2023, Jo also tracks down the house where her own mother spent part of her childhood and meets one of the last surviving residents, now living in the UK. It is a revelatory journey, uncovering forgotten family stories and revealing how the Nazis deprived Jews of the right to live in their own homes.

Jo Glanville regularly produces and presents programmes for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service. Her journalism has been published in the Guardian, Prospect, London Review of Books and the New York Times. She is the editor of Looking for an Enemy: eight essays on antisemitism (Short Books/WW Norton) and Qissat: short stories by Palestinian women (Saqi).

Lisa Lipman has been directing and telling stories on popular programmes for the BBC and other channels for the last 30 years. A colleague of Jo’s, she is very much looking forward to finding out more about how Jo discovered and pursued this story.

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