Polnisch
Book Talk featuring Daniel Finkelstein. The event will be moderated by Mateusz Faลkowski.
11.04, 18.00 | Pariser Platz 4A, 10117 Berlin | Registration:ย https://forms.gle/JrFCr2N9QpAtHxdT7
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From longstanding political columnist and commentator Daniel Finkelstein, a powerful memoir exploring both his mother and his fatherโs devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.
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„๐๐ฅ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ.“
Danielโs mother Mirjam Wiener was the youngest of three daughters born in Germany to Alfred and Margarete Wiener. Alfred, a decorated hero from the Great War, is now widely acknowledged to have been the first person to recognise the existential danger Hitler posed to the Jews and began, in 1933, to catalogue in detail Nazi crimes. After moving his family to Amsterdam, he relocated his library to London and was preparing to bring over his wife and children when Germany invaded the Netherlands. Before long, the family was rounded up, robbed and sent to starve in Bergen-Belsen.
Danielโs father Ludwik was born in Lwรณw, the only child of a prosperous Jewish family. In 1939, after Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland, Ludwikโs father was arrested and sentenced to hard labour in the Gulag. Meanwhile, deported to Siberia and working as a slave labourer on a collective farm, Ludwik survived the freezing winters in a tiny house he built from cow dung.
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is a deeply moving, personal and at times horrifying memoir about Finkelsteinโs parentsโ experiences at the hands of the two genocidal dictators of the twentieth century. It is a story of persecution; survival; and the consequences of totalitarianism told with the almost unimaginable bravery of two ordinary families shining through.
