Scotland’s First Minister will be heading to Paisley next week to take part in a special event during the town’s annual Book Festival.
Nicola Sturgeon – who will be returning to the festival for a second year – has been confirmed as the Chair of a special event which discusses the friendship formed by a Jewish refugee. who fled Nazi Germany, and award-winning journalist and author, Chitra Ramaswamy.
The event, which takes place on February 17, will see Sturgeon and Chitra discuss her book, Homelands, which tells the story of the decade-long friendship between Chitra and 98-year-old German Jewish refugee Henry Wuga, who came to the UK on a Kindertransport in the spring of 1939 and settled in Glasgow. Homelands traverses a century of history, exploring Chitra and Henry’s friendship and interweaving their family histories.
