ESCAPE TO SHANGHAI : A JEWISH COMMUNITY IN CHINA

Rating:
Summary: Incredible nonfiction
Review: As readable as a novel, but based on painstaking research, Ross's account of the Jews who lived out the Holocaust in Shanghai focuses on four individual and their families. There is another book that deals mostly with the religious Jews in Shanghai (which Ross, disappointingly, ignores except for one or two disparaging remarks), but this book presents an excellent overall picture by following the lives of specific people. Highly recommended.