Strange haven: a Jewish childhood in wartime Shanghai
TitleStrange haven: a Jewish childhood in wartime Shanghai
Author
Call number951.132004924/0007
Object number03640
Place of publicationUrbana
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press
Year of publication
1999
Physical description162p.,index,photographs
MaterialBook
ISBN0252024532
Description
Memoir of a young German boy who as one of seventeen thousand Jewish refugees flocked to Hongkew, a section of Shanghai ruled by the Japanese. An epiligue describes the changes he observed when he returned to Shanghai forty years later as a visiting professor.