The unlikely refuge of Shanghai, the only city in the world that did not require a visa, was buffeted by the struggle between European imperialism, Japanese agg
After the Nazis took power, Heppner, a member of a privileged middle-class German Jewish family, suffered from constant anti-Semitism. But Kristallnacht, in Nov
Memoirs of the author, born Eveline Popielarz, in 1930, in Breslau. She and her parents managed to leave Nazi Germany in February 1939 for Shanghai. In 1947 the
The Tilanqiao neighborhood of the Hongkew district in Shanghai, China had become in the mid-1940s, as a result of European discrimination against the Jews, a No