An Uncommon Journey

Now in paperback, An Uncommon Journey is a unique memoir by a sister and brother who fled Austria in September 1939, just a week before the Nazis turned on their Jews with a vengeance. The Wacs family fled Vienna for Shanghai, the only territory willing to take them in during those chaotic times. Shanghai was alien to them—different language, people, culture-and the story unfolds through the eyes of the siblings, ten years apart, who very often share different memories of the same events. The truth becomes a mosaic with many facets, creating a moving portrait of a persecuted family uprooted from their homeland but with a very strong will to survive all obstacles thrown in their path.