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Book details doctor's Jewish parents' love story amid Nazi persecution

Hackney author Matha Leigh's parents on their wedding day on July 6, 1945, outside Hackney Town Hall.

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Holly Chant

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A Stoke Newington doctor has released a book detailing the harrowing tale that brought her Jewish parents together and the letters they sent to each other as her mother fled Nazi persecution in Europe. After retiring from her job as a GP in...