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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Epic moving and important ROBERT HARRIS

Im not sure Ive ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness its also a memoir of miraculous survival I cant recommend it enough ANTHONY HOROWITZ

A modern classic OBSERVER

An unforgettable epic of a book DAILY MAIL

From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his fathers devastating experiences of persecution resistance and survival during the Second World War

Daniels mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener Alfred a decorated hero from the Great War is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began in 1933 to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes After moving his family to Amsterdam he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands Before long the family was rounded up robbed and sent to starve in BergenBelsen
Daniels father Ludwik was born in Lww the only child of a prosperous Jewish family In 1939 after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland Ludwiks father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag Meanwhile deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung
Hitler Stalin Mum and Dad is a deeply moving personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelsteins parents experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century It is a story of persecution survival and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through

Danny Finkelstein has written an elegant moving account of the history of one family and in doing so shines light on the history of the 20th century If you want to understand Hitler and Stalin read this book about people whose lives were upended by both of them ANNE APPLEBAUM author of Gulag A History winner of the Pulitzer Prize