Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad : a family memoir of miraculous survival
Finkelstein, Daniel, 1962-2024
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Daniel's 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 Holland. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed, humiliated, and sent to Bergen-Belsen. Daniel's father Ludwik was born in Lwow, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, the family was rounded up by the communists and sent to do hard labour in a Siberian gulag. Working as slave labourers on a collective farm, his father survived the freezing winters in a tiny house they built from cow dung. Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about his parents' experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the 20th century. It is a story of persecution and survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through.
Main title:
Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad : a family memoir of miraculous survival / Daniel Finkelstein.
Author:
Finkelstein, Daniel, 1962-, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2024.©2023
Collation:
471 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, genealogical tables ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97800084838529780008483890 (paperback)
Dewey class:
940.5318083305.89240420922940.53180922940.5318
Language:
English
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Subject:
Finkelstein, Daniel, 1962- -- FamilyFinkelstein familyHolocaust survivors -- Germany -- BiographyJewish refugees -- Germany -- BiographyJewish refugees -- Great Britain -- BiographyJewish refugees -- Soviet Union -- BiographyRefugees -- Germany -- BiographyRefugees -- Great Britain -- BiographyRefugees -- Soviet Union -- BiographyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- BiographyPolitical persecution -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th centuryJews -- Social conditions -- Soviet UnionBiographies
BRN:
792040
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | -Biography | BIOG 940.5318 FINK | Available |