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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: Daniel Finkelstein on his family’s miraculous survival

The Story

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The Story of Anna Margot Frank

The idea had been dreamt up by a group of Polish diplomats in Switzerland who paid the man who was Paraguay's honorary consul a fee for signing passports. Everyone knew that these passports were fake but they stopped Jews from being killed because you couldn't kill someone who on paper was the citizen of a country that had long and well established relations with Germany. It came so late in the war that it wasn't possible to do it for anyone else. The people who stayed behind in Belsen, many of those people were among those people who were found only about six weeks later by the allied forces as they arrived and found skeletons and starvation basically. My aunt kept a diary. So my mother

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