Shanghai Remembered is a compilation of 25 recollections of Jewish refugees in wartime Shanghai from 1938 to 1948.
They had fled to Shanghai from Nazi Germany, as no other countries, other than China, would give them refuge.
Their recollections are vivid and sad. They had left a good life for a life of struggle, penniless in a strange and inhospitable land.
They saw extreme poverty among the Chinese. Dead babies were just left on the street wrapped in straw by parents who could not support them. [ p 134].
Their stories are not told by Western and American writers as its a stigma that cannot be washed away.
