Surviving Hitler and Stalin
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
4.7 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Lord Daniel Finkelstein recounts stories from his parents' remarkable lives. His mother Mirjam Wiener survived the Nazi concentration camps, and his father Ludwik Finkelstein lived through a Soviet gulag. Daniel tells Dan how these remarkable people survived the horrors of both regimes, and imparts some of the lessons that they learnt along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dan Snow's History It, to listen to all of our episodes ad-free, get bonus |
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| 0:18.5 | Welcome everybody to Dan Snow's History It. |
| 0:24.1 | It's an astonishing case of tenacity, of war, of genocide, of survival, of love, of |
| 0:30.8 | persistence, of all sorts of things, of liberal democracy. |
| 0:33.6 | We're covering it all folks. |
| 0:34.8 | I've got Lord Daniel Finkelstein, he's on the podcast. |
| 0:38.4 | He is a journalist, he's the associate editor of the Times newspaper, he sits in the house |
| 0:41.9 | of Lords. |
| 0:42.9 | He's a brilliant polemicist and he's just written a superb book about his family story. |
| 0:48.9 | Long time listen to the podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | Remember when I went into him in the House of Lords years ago now and he hinted at various |
| 0:53.3 | aspects of this story. |
| 0:54.3 | Well he's now decided to write it all up, it's called Hitler Style in Mum Dad, a family |
| 0:58.9 | memoir of miraculous survival and it is truly miraculous. |
| 1:03.4 | The book is almost unbuttonable. |
| 1:04.4 | I read it in a couple of sessions late into the night, calls me sleep deprivation, but |
| 1:08.7 | it was well worth it. |
| 1:10.1 | One of his family were hugely affluent elite members of Austro-Hungarian and then Polish |
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