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It鈥檚 March 1943. WW2 is reaching its peak.
Across Bulgaria, Jewish people have had their rights taken away, they鈥檝e been exiled from major cities and had businesses confiscated.
Producer Talia Randall鈥檚 family are among them.
In some towns, in the dead of night, Jewish families have been rounded up schoolyards. They have no food, no water. They are terrified.
Officials in the Nazi-aligned country are awaiting orders to send these people to Poland. Whispers travel through the crowds; they know something terrible is happening to Jews there, but they have no idea the extent of the horrors taking place in Auschwitz and Treblinka.
However, an uprising is taking place. Ordinary citizens and public figures are protesting against the persecution of Jewish people. A rumour spreads - a well-known Bishop storms a train station, threatening to lie on the rail lines to prevent the deportation.
And just before they are forced onto trains, new orders are received.
This is a story of how the people of Bulgaria prevented their Jewish neighbours from being sent to concentration camps. Nearly 50,000 people were saved. Talia is alive because of this fact.
Now Talia travels to Bulgaria to explore her family history and the impact of being saved. With her mum for company, she discovers the emotional legacy and the unique features of Bulgaria that made the so-called miracle a possibility.

A Goldhawk production for 麻豆社 World Service.