Robert S. reviewed Ten Green Bottles : The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai on + 2 more book reviews
Compelling true story of Austrian Jews last ditch efforts to escape Nazi persecution. Remarkable stories of survival and resourcefulness in little known getto established in Shanghai during WWII. Overall inspirational in impact.
Susan D. (mom2nine) reviewed Ten Green Bottles : The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai on + 343 more book reviews
In this book, Kaplan tells her mother's story. The first few chapters are a bit stilted, as she sets the stage of her mother's childhood. As her mother gets older, her memories are more vivid, just in time for her family to escape Vienna into Shanghai, to a settlement with which few of us are familiar. Their lives are tension filled and their story is one of survival in the face of repeated destruction.
