Britain's minister for energy and climate change, Ed Miliband, received an unexpected phone call on a radio phone-in programme from a long lost relative.
An elderly woman by the name of Sofia Davidovna Miliband called to tell him that she was the only relative of his left in Russia.
"After much translation and a call to his mother in the UK, the British minister - whose brother David, is the UK's foreign secretary - worked out that his great-great grandfather was the brother of Sofia's grandfather.
Both of them had been born in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw in Poland.
Ed Miliband's grandfather fled Poland in the 1920s and ended up in Belgium. He fled again ahead of Hitler's invading army and made it to Britain on forged papers with his son, Ed and David Miliband's father.
Unknown to them another part of the Miliband clan had come east to Moscow."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8295394.stm
An elderly woman by the name of Sofia Davidovna Miliband called to tell him that she was the only relative of his left in Russia.
"After much translation and a call to his mother in the UK, the British minister - whose brother David, is the UK's foreign secretary - worked out that his great-great grandfather was the brother of Sofia's grandfather.
Both of them had been born in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw in Poland.
Ed Miliband's grandfather fled Poland in the 1920s and ended up in Belgium. He fled again ahead of Hitler's invading army and made it to Britain on forged papers with his son, Ed and David Miliband's father.
Unknown to them another part of the Miliband clan had come east to Moscow."
Read more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8295394.stm
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