Since my post from a couple days ago when I wrote about learning that my grandfather's cousin had fled Germany for Shanghai in 1939, I've found some more information about this cousin and his circumstances.My grandfather's uncle Karl in Germany had two children, Julius and … [Read more...]
A slow boat to Shanghai
Have you ever had a moment where everything seemed to fall into place? I'm not talking about the day to day routines, but the larger picture.On Friday night, a genealogist cousin e-mailed me about our relatives who left Germany in the late 1930s. She mentioned one named … [Read more...]
Book of the week–All that I Am
Last night I stayed up late to finish Anna Funder's debut novel, All That I Am (Harper, 2012), even though the rest of my family was sound asleep upstairs.I couldn't put the book down and ploughed through it in three days, averaging 130 pages a day.Funder's novel, based … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Escape from Hong Kong
After much anticipation, I finally received and read Tim Luard's fabulous Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak's Christmas Day Dash, 1941 (Hong Kong University Press, 2012).And boy did it not disappoint.This has to be one of the most exciting wartime escape … [Read more...]
Meet me at the Pen
Yesterday I took my two little ones up to Chicago for lunch at the Peninsula Hotel. There we met my two sisters-in-law in what's become an annual tradition over the last five years.I like the Peninsula not so much because it's a fancy hotel, but because it reminds me of the … [Read more...]
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