An epic and uplifting World War II Family history of resistance that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin, and the near-Miraculous Survival stories of the author\'s mother and father.
A tale of deliverance and triumph over evil, Two Roads Home will profoundly touch all who read it..
Using their personal testimony, letters sent to Siberia, a diary written in Belsen, and years of historical research, Daniel Finkelstein tells what happened to two families, one the victim of the Nazis, the other of the Soviets.
Two Roads Home is a page-turning account of the narrow escapes, forged passports, ingenuity, bravery, and luck that allowed Mirjam and Ludwik to survive the war and find each other.
But when Stalin took control, Dolu, was deported to Siberia and Ludwik and his mother were sentenced to forced labor in Kazakhstan, starved and housed in a stable in freezing conditions.
Finkelstein\'s father, Ludwik, grew up in a prosperous Jewish Family in Poland where his father, Dolu was a patriotic hero of the Great War.
But in those years safety was an illusion: Anne Frank famously went into hiding and Daniel\'s mother, Mirjam, also still a child, was sent to Bergen-Belsen with her mother and sisters.
He relocated his Family to safety in Amsterdam, where they knew Anne Frank.
Daniel Finkelstein\'s grandfather was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi crimes.
In Two Roads Home beloved British journalist Daniel Finkelstein tells the extraordinary story of the years before his mother met his father--years of war and trials they barely survived.
An epic and uplifting World War II Family history of resistance that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering under Hitler and Stalin, and the near-Miraculous Survival stories of the author\'s mother and father
