Research Catalog

Title

Ten green bottles : the true story of one family's journey from war-torn Austria to the ghettos of Shanghai / Vivian Jeanette Kaplan.

Author

Kaplan, Vivian Jeanette, 1946-

Publication

New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

ix, 285 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Recounts how the author and her family was marginalized and tormented for their Jewish heritage after the Nazi invasion of Austria, describing how they were forced to flee to a Shanghai ghetto where the living conditions tested their ability to survive.

Subject

• Karpel, Nini
• 1939-1945
• Jews, Austrian > Shanghai > Biography
• Jewish refugees > Shanghai > Biography
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Austria
• Jews > Persecutions > Austria
• Austria > Biography
• Shanghai (China) > Biography

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• Biographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Papa 1921 -- Changes 1922 -- Remembrance 1923 -- Vienna 1926 -- Growing Up 1931 -- Politics 1934 -- Poldi 1936 -- Passover Story 1937 -- Letters from Italy 1938 -- Anschluss 1938 -- The Devil's Warrior 1938 -- Means of Escape 1938 -- Kristallnacht November 1938 -- Farewell January 1939 -- Purge in Italy January 1939 -- Fatal Miscalculation February 1939 -- Departure 1939 -- The Voyage 1939 -- Shanghai 1939 -- The French Concession 1939 -- The Club 1939 -- Beshert 1939 -- We Are Married 1940 -- Return to Shanghai 1940 -- Ten Green Bottles 1940-1941 -- Pearl Harbor 1941 -- Hongkew 1942-1943 -- Survival 1944 -- Life in Hongkew 1944-1945 -- The War Continues 1943-1945 -- Bombs Fall in Hongkew 1945 -- Victory 1945 -- The Shock of the Holocaust 1945 -- Life after the War 1946 -- All's Well 1947 -- The Communists 1948 -- The Ship 1949 -- Toronto February 1949.

ISBN

• 0312330545
• 9780312330545

LCCN

^^2004048690

OCLC

55587220

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library