In “Two Roads Home,” British journalist Daniel Finkelstein traces his forbears’ paths through Hitler’s death camps and Stalin’s slave labor sites.
Second-guessing life-or-death decisions with the hindsight of history is only natural, asserts British journalist Daniel Finkelstein in his unflinching and gripping family history “
But even the best guesses available to Jews, like his grandparents, seeking to escape Nazi Germany and Poland in the 1930s could not have forecast the devastatingly swift onslaught of broken promises and Axis military strikes that would so quickly result in the occupation of Allied countries, which were only a short time before considered “safe” from Hitler’s antisemitic persecution.
Within months of Hitler becoming German chancellor in 1933, Wiener and his wife, Grete, and their three young daughters moved from their Berlin home to Amsterdam, where Otto and Edith Frank and their daughters Margot and future diarist Anne, who had fled from Frankfurt, were neighbors.
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