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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: Daniel Finkelstein on his family’s miraculous survival
The Story
The Extraordinary Story of My Grandmother
I've always known that my family had an extraordinary story. When I was in my teens, early teens, we used to go to the lowlands of Scotland. My grandmother would tell me quite amusing stories of her battling against kind of witless Soviet bureaucrats. She threatened somebody with a bread weight because he refused to open the store and give my father some bread. So I knew even from that young age that there was an extraordinary story on my father's side and also on my mother's side. And I also felt within the family that somehow I'd be the one that would write it.
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