#2059430 in Books 2013-09-23 2013-09-23Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.00 x .50 x 6.50l, .90 #File Name: 1927583101204 pages0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Shanghai Escape: Purchased at .comBy depWhile I liked this book, it didn't seem as well written as some of the other books by Kathy Kacer. Very little was said about Lily's family escaping Austria, and nothing at all was said about the long boat trip to Shanghai. A bit disappointing, although it is a good book for young readers.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. New areas of Holocaust research are centered on the Jews who fled tFrom School Library JournalGr 4-6- Filled with photographs, Shanghai Escape is an episodic novelization of Lily Toufar's real-life story growing up in Shanghai. Lily is four when her extended family flees Austria on Kristallnacht. They go to one of the few places accepting Jews-Shanghai. There LilyShanghai, China, seems an unlikely destination for Jewish refugees trying to escape the cruel anti-Semitic laws of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party before the Second World War. But while most countries were unwilling to give refuge to Jews, China was one place that did. More than twenty thousand European Jews found refuge in Shanghai between 1937 and 1939. Lily Toufar and her family arrive in Shanghai in 1938, having fled from Vienna on the eve of Kristallnacht. Shanghai is a strange place for th...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Shanghai Escape (Holocaust Remembrance Series) | . A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
