Shanghai Escape

by Kathy Kacer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927583101
• ISBN13: 9781927583104
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Second Story Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 9 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 8