The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution (Bradley Peter)(Paperback)

'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. In November 1941, Peter Bradley's grandparents, Sally and Bertha Brandes, were deported from their home in Bamberg to their deaths in Latvia.The Last Train is a profound and moving homage to Peter's lost family and to his father who rarely spoke of the traumas through which he lived.It is also his attempt to understand, through the prism of his family's story, how the Nazis came to conceive and implement the Final Solution.Why did Sally and Bertha's fellow citizens put them on the train that carried them to the killing fields?Why did the democracies which so loudly condemned Hitler's persecution of the Jews deny them
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