Of the 400,000 German-speaking Jews that escaped the Third Reich, about 16,000 ended up in Shanghai, China. This groundbreaking volume gathers 20 years of interviews with over 100 former Shanghai refugees. It offers a moving collective portrait of courage, culture shock, persistence, and enduring hope in the face of unimaginable hardships.
ISBN: | 9781137006707 |
Publication date: | 19th June 2012 |
Author: | Steve Hochstadt |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 272 pages |
Series: | Palgrave Studies in Oral History |
Genres: |
Asian history Social and cultural history Judaism European history History |