: Deborah Strobin, Ilie Wacs
: Uncommon Journey From Vienna to Shanghai to America--A Brother and Sister Escape to Freedom During World War II
: Barricade Books
: 9781569804650
: 1
: CHF 10.80
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: Biographien, Autobiographien
: English
September 1939 - Nazi Austria turns on their Jews and the family Wacs flees Vienna, saving their lives. Destination: Shanghai, alien to them-different language, people, culture. Had they not escaped, one week later war broke out, and this family's fate might have been quite different. An Uncommon Journey addresses universal issues-persecution and the will to survive. This unique memoir by a sister and brother ten years apart shares different memories, often of the same events. The truth becomes a mosaic with many facets, creating a moving portrait of a family uprooted.