In the mid-1930s, author Vera Haldy-Regier's father, a minor,
recalcitrant diplomat in Hitler's government, is banished to a post
in Vladivostok, Russia, and later to the former German lease
territory of Tsingtao, China.
While openly critical of the Nazis, he nonetheless remains
employed by the German Foreign Office until the end of the war.
Together with his wife, he is instrumental in obtaining food and
money for the small community of Jewish refugees that fled to
Tsingtao, and endures several threats to his life from Nazi
officials. After Hitler's defeat, the family loses nearly all its
possessions to the Chinese revolutionaries before escaping to the
West on an American troop transporter.
Their early years in America are filled with severe financial
need. But in the midst of hardship, there are gifts of love,
support, and friendship that became beacons of enduring hope.
Haldy-Regier's poignant memoir traces the family's path from
Germany to America via Italy, Turkey, Russia, Japan, China and
Cuba. It carries triumphant messages of love, forgiveness, and
gratitude for gifts gathered amidst the ruins of war and the pain
and injustice of intolerance.
""As one who knew the author's family in China, I was deeply
moved by this beautifully written, honest account of the triumph of
a young girl's spirit in her ever-tilting world."
" -Eva Pulverman Jellin
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