Adiós, Shanghai
By: Wagenstein, Angel [author.].
Contributor(s): Nikolov, Vent︠s︡eslav [translator.].
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Moving from Paris to Dresden to Shanghai, Wagenstein chronicles the lives of European migr and refugees in WWII Shanghai. Elisabeth and Theodore Weissberg, a German mezzo-soprano and her German-Jewish violinist husband, flee Dresden to eke out an existence in Shanghai's burgeoning Jewish ghetto, which ends up 30,000 strong as the Shoah begins. Hilde Braun, a German-Jewish actress, is living illegally in Paris aided by a mysterious Slav named Vladek, until events force them to Shanghai.
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