I Must Belong Somewhere

Jonathan Dean

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times

Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather David Schapira fled the Russian threat in Ukraine for Vienna in 1914. Blinded in the First World War he survived to find love and start a family only to be sent to a concentration camp during the next war. David's son Heinz was also a refugee. In 1939 aged 16 he embarked on a nail-biting journey to London to escape his fate as an Austrian Jew.

Drawing on David's memoir and Heinz's wartime diaries Dean visits the places that changed the course of his family tree - Vienna Cologne Ukraine - where he finds history repeating itself and meets a new wave of people leaving loved ones for an uncertain future.

I Must Belong Somewhere is an unforgettable family tale of exile and survival and a powerful meditation on what it means to be a refugee today.

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