Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad. A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

Daniel Finkelstein's memoirs are a moving and sometimes terrifying story of how the author's parents, Miriam and Ludwik, managed to escape the tragic fates destined for them by dictators Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and survived the death throes that claimed the lives of millions during World War II. His mother survived the Holocaust in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, while his father endured hunger and slave labor in Siberia.

Both of the 20th century's misanthropic regimes—Nazism and Stalinism—caused the author's parents and grandparents untold suffering. However, they did not overcome them.