Ysenda Maxtone Graham

A last-minute escape from the Holocaust

In a profoundly moving family memoir, Daniel Finkelstein describes the miracle by which his mother, as a child, was rescued from the hell of Belsen

Daniel Finkelstein’s mother Mirjam. [Daniel Finkelstein]
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  • Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

    Daniel Finkelstein

    William Collins, pp. 496, £25

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