Shanghai Diary

At 11 years of age, Ursula Bacon thrust three steamship tickets into the hand of an SS officer and, after waiting endlessly at a Gestapo holding station, was given a large, stained burlap sack containing her injured and still-alive father. Seven days later in Genoa, she and her parents boarded the steamship Gneisenau, bound for Shanghai, the only port open to Jewish refugees in March 1939.

In Shanghai Diary, Ursula shares with her readers the hard lessons learned on the street, the story of the Buddhist monk who changed her life, the overwhelming sorrow of a dear friend lost, and the thrill of rescuing the crew of a downed American bomber. Against this background, Bacon learned of her own resourcefulness and found within herself the fierce determination to survive.

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272 pages • 6 1/2 " x 9 1/4" * 1-5958582-000-0 • $24.95 www.mpressbooks.com