An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America a Brother and Sister Escape the Nazis

Another Shanghai Jewish memoir of the late 1930s and ’40s to add to the slightly groaning shelf of what was, thanks to the Nazi bastards, a rather too common journey for many….

It’s Septemer 1939 and Nazi Austria turns on their Jews with a vengeance.  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 several universal issues – persecution and the will to survive.  This unique memoir by a sister and brother born 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.