Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival Author : Daniel Finkelstein ISBN-13 : 978-0008483845 Publisher : William Collins Guideline Price : £25 Three strands run through this heartbreaking family testimony. The first strand is the descent of Europe into barbarism in the second World War, which formed the backdrop to Daniel Finkelstein’s parents’ childhoods. His mother, Mirjam, was born in Berlin in 1933, the year that Hitler was appointed Chancellor. That year, her family fled to the Netherlands. Within weeks, the Reichstag had been torched, civil rights curtailed and the first wave of political arrests carried...