Life in postwar Shanghai Fred Marcus With the news of Japan’s capitulation on August 15, 1945, refugees in Shanghai are free and Hongkew erupts in celebration. After growing up under the oppression of the Nazis in Germany and the Japanese in Shanghai, Fred is euphoric...
Alone in Shanghai Fred Marcus Many refugees in Shanghai experience deteriorating health due to poor diet and harsh living conditions, and in April 1944 both Fred and Semmy are ill. Fred contracts pneumonia and fights a high fever for over a week. When his fever...
News of the war in Europe Fred Marcus While little news of the Allied war against Japan reaches the refugees in Shanghai, refugees are able to follow events in the war in Europe through Russian radio broadcasts. Fred records the progress of Allied forces on the...
Life under Japanese occupation: Hongkew ghetto Fred Marcus While the United States battles Japan in the Pacific theater of the war, Fred and Semmy settle into their life in Shanghai. Although their circumstances are considerably more modest than they had been in...
Preparing to leave Germany Fred Marcus Following the devastation of the Kristallnacht pogrom, the restrictions limiting Jewish participation are turned into policies of complete exclusion of Jews from economic and civic life in Germany. Semmy Marcus and his brother...
