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An epic and uplifting World War II family history of resistance that spans Europe telling of two happy families uprooted by war their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin and the nearmiraculous survival stories of the authors mother and father

Moving and importantRobert Harris author of Act of Oblivion

In Two Roads Home beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his fatheryears of war and trials they barely survived

Daniel Finkelsteins grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes He relocated his family to safety in Amsterdam where they knew Anne Frank But in those years safety was an illusion Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniels mother Mirjam also still a child was sent to BergenBelsen with her mother and sisters

Finkelsteins father Ludwik grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father Dolu was a patriotic hero of the Great War But when Stalin took control Dolu was deported to Siberia and Ludwik and his mother were sentenced to forced labor in Kazakhstan starved and housed in a stable in freezing conditions

Two Roads Home is a pageturning account of the narrow escapes forged passports ingenuity bravery and luck that allowed Mirjam and Ludwik to survive the war and find each other Using their personal testimony letters sent to Siberia a diary written in Belsen and years of historical research Daniel Finkelstein tells what happened to two families one the victim of the Nazis the other of the Soviets A tale of deliverance and triumph over evil Two Roads Home will profoundly touch all who read it

This audiobook editionncludes a downloadable PDF of notes and a family tree from the book