"A family memoir of miraculous survival"

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad is Daniel Finkelstein’s powerful memoir, exploring both his mother and his father’s devastating experiences of persecution, resistance and survival during the Second World War.

Come and hear Daniel and his sister Tamara Isaacs talk about their family story, in conversation with writer and translator Daniel Hahn.

Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE is a former politician and is currently Associate Editor of The Times. He is also a leader writer and a weekly political columnist. Before joining The Times in 2001, he was adviser to both Prime Minister John Major and Conservative leader William Hague. He is the chairman of Policy Exchange and was elevated to the House of Lords in August 2013.

Tamara Finkelstein CB was appointed Permanent Secretary at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2019, having previously led the department’s work on EU Exit Delivery. Before that she led the Building Safety Programme in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

Daniel Hahn OBE is a writer, editor and translator with sixty-something books to his name. His work has won him the International Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many others. He is a past Chair of the Society of Authors.

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