Collected and edited by Doreen Price and mastered by Gordon Earl of the West Midlands Oral History Group - Sponsored by the Millennium Festival Awards Group

The long history of the Jews is extraordinary because they retained their identity from their final conquest by the Romans in 132 AD until the creation of Israel in 1948. They were welded together by their religion, its laws and traditions. Centuries of oppression and exclusion reinforced their identification as Jews.

At the beginning of the 20th century the majority of Europe's ten million Jews lived in Eastern europe, mainly in the Polish and Ukranian provinces of the Russian Empire. This is their story, told by some of the survivors of the Second World War.