Daniel Finkelstein.
DANIEL FINKELSTEIN: biography of his parents
hitler, stalin, mum and dad (2014)
A Times Book of the Year.
Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, 2023.
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Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of his parents who - unlike several of his close family - managed by great bravery and good fortune to survive the persecution of the Jews by both Hitler and Stalin. After many vicissitudes they achieved a peaceful life in Hendon, north London, where Daniel was brought up.
This highly praised book was described by the Observer thus: ‘‘Powerful and beautifully written. Once the second world war breaks out the book works like a thriller, as both families race against the clock to escape certain death. But there are bigger themes running through Finkelstein’s writing, elevating Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad to the status of A modern classic – and just as deserving of acclaim as Philippe Sands’s East West Street or Edmund de Waal’s The Hare With Amber Eyes, both of which used inventive ways to examine the Holocaust afresh’. The Financial Timed wrote: ‘This is a masterful tale, haunting, elegiac, at times joyful and humorous. It is a history, a commentary, and a thriller, alternating between the suffering at the hands of the Germans and the Soviets’.
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Daniel Finekstein (born 1962) is a British journalist and polician, now a Conservative life peer in the House of Lords. Formerly a member of the Social Democratic Party, he moved to the Conservatives when the SDP merged with the Liberal Party. He has been Director of the Social Market Foundation and was from 1995 to 1997 Director of the Conservtive Research Department under John Major.
