🎧 Surviving Hitler and Stalin
🎧 Dan Snow's History Hit
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37m
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 us how they survived the horrors of both regimes, and imparts some of the lessons that they learnt along the way.
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