Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein

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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein: 5: Reunion

5: Reunion

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Daniel Finkelstein concludes his heartrending memoir of his parents' time durring WWII.

After after being reunited, Daniel's grandparents must find a way to live and make sense of their harrowing experiences, in the final part of this moving family memoir.

Daniel Finkelstein reads the final part of his heartrending memoir of his parents' experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during WWII, this week following his  father's story at the hands of Stalin.

Daniel's father Ludwik was born in the Polish city of Lwow, now Lviv, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, the family was rounded up by the communists. His grandfather Dolu was arrested and disappeared, while his 10-year-old father and grandmother were sent to Siberia, working as slave labourers on a collective farm. They somehow survived starvation and freezing winters, living in a house they built from cow dung, but always hoping to be reunited with Dolu.

Today: after being reunited, Daniel's grandparents and father, still now only 12, must find a way to live and to make sense of what happened to them at the hands of the communists...

Written and read by Daniel Finkelstein
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett

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