Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (Unabridged) Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (Unabridged)

Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family (Unabridged‪)‬

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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 near-miraculous survival stories of the author's mother and father.

“Moving and important.”—Robert 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 father—years of war and trials they barely survived.

Daniel Finkelstein's 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 Daniel's mother, Mirjam, also still a child, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters.

Finkelstein's 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 page-turning 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 edition ncludes a downloadable PDF of notes and a family tree from the book.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
DF
Daniel Finkelstein
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11:59
hr min
RELEASED
2023
September 19
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
760.8
MB

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