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Cargando... Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (2023 original; edición 2023)por Daniel Finkelstein (Autor)
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[a]n immigrant family's story of love and war, but above all, a passionate defence of moderate liberal values as a bulwark against violent extremes. His mother was a German Jew who miraculously survived a Nazi concentration camp; his father a Jew from Lvov in Poland (now Lviv in Ukraine), shipped off by the invading Russians to one of Stalin's gulags. The deliberately ordinary suburban life they eventually forged in Britain, after meeting and marrying, was an extraordinary victory over the odds, a reminder never to make assumptions about what lies behind unassuming front doors or underestimate the privilege of a quiet life. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener 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 became close with Anne Frank's family. But they were eventually separated, and Daniel's mother Mirjam was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters while Alfred worked feverishly to free them. Finkelstein's father, Ludwik, grew up in a prosperous Jewish family in Poland where his father was a patriotic hero of the Great War. But when Stalin took control, Finkelstein's grandfather was deported to Siberia, while Ludwik and his mother were sent to Kazahkstan, where they barely survived freezing winters and harrowing forced labor conditions. Love and Murder is a page-turning account of ingenuity, bravery and the almost unbelievable coincidences that brought Daniel's parents together. The story features secret archives, forgery and theft, and sweeps across Europe to show the expanse of the war. Moving, engrossing and inspiring, Love and Murder will profoundly touch all who read it"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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