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The Story

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: Daniel Finkelstein on his family’s miraculous survival

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The Times

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s a story of covert archives and freezing wastelands, of concentration camps and gulags. In a new book, Times columnist Daniel Finkelstein reveals how his family took a journey that ended happily in Hendon – but took a detour through hell.

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Guest: Daniel Finkelstein, Times columnist and author of Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival: https://timesbookshop.co.uk/hitler-stalin-mum-and-dad-9780008483845 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Clips: BBC Radio 4, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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0:00.0

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0:26.0

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0:36.0

If you're a Timesreader, you'll know him well.

0:40.0

Danny Finkelstein, or Lord Finkelstein as he's properly known,

0:44.0

has spent more than two decades explaining the political world

0:49.0

through the thousands of columns and articles he's written for the paper.

0:54.0

But there's one story he's never told before.

0:58.0

It's a story that takes us from Holland to the Bergen-Belson concentration camp to London.

1:06.0

I remember the story that Ronald Reagan was going to go and visit Belson.

1:10.0

I went downstairs to tell my mum she was washing up.

1:14.0

I stood behind her, I said, Mum, Ronald Reagan's going to Belson

1:17.0

and she responded, so what I've been.

1:21.0

The survivors carry a memory beyond anything that we can comprehend.

1:26.0

We can, and must pledge, never again.

1:37.0

As Danny pieced together his own history,

1:40.0

he came to understand how his life has been shaped by his family's past.

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