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Loading... Shanghai Escape (Holocaust Remembrance Series)by Kathy Kacer
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I had no idea Shanghai, China, was a refuge for Jews during World War 2. This is an eye-opening account of a true story and one family's experience living in China believing they were safe only to see the Japanese come in and make life even more difficult. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Nazi-occupied Vienna and the persecution of Jewish families like theirs. Shanghai is a strange place for a young European girl, but it is one of the few places in the world to offer Jews refuge from the Holocaust. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and under pressure from Hitler, the Japanese government in Shanghai orders Jewish refugees to move into a ghetto in an area of Shanghai called Hongkew. Life changes for Lily and her family when they are forced to the ghetto. With little food to eat and poor sanitation, disease is rampant. Lily endures, but when rumors begin to circulate that the Japanese are going to open a camp like the ones where Jews are imprisoned in Europe, she fears for her and her family's safety. Based on a true story. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresNo genres Melvil Decimal System (DDC)940.5318History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- World War II Social, political, economic history; Holocaust HolocaustLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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