Metro where it will do • the most Shanghai Connection Local author provides stories of fews' escape from Nazi oppression. ents, Salomon and Henny Falbaum, who escaped from World War II histo- Berlin in August 1939 when ry — and little he was 9 months old. They known — that about immigrated to the United 20,000 Jews fled Nazi States just before his 10th Europe to escape to birthday in 1948. Shanghai. The book recounts how In an effort to save this Shanghai was an open city history, Bed Falbaum — — it did not require any longtime journalist and visas or other documenta- author from West tion for entry — and how Bloomfield — has com- the refugees developed a piled and edited a book Berl Falbaum self-contained community Shanghai Remembered: in the Hongkew Ghetto Stories of Jews Who in which they were Escaped from Nazi restricted after 1943 by Europe to Shanghai, tIGINAT. the Japanese occupiers. published by Despite extreme Momentum Books poverty, rampant dis- of Royal Oak. eases, a wartime setting, The book contains a strange and foreign 24 first-person culture, a difficult lan- accounts of former guage and intense heat refugees who called and humidity, the themselves refugees created a com- "Shanghailanders" as munity with secular and - SHANGHAI well as rare docu- religious schools, syna- - REMEMBERED. ments and photos. It goguenewspapers, the- also contains a aters, cafes and high-cal- speech delivered to a iber sports teams. They reunion of accomplished all of this Shanghailanders in within a 10-year period, 2002 by the secretary arriving around 1938-39 of the treasury in the and emigrating from Carter administra- China after the war between 1946-48. tion, W. Michael Blumenthal, who was "The book adds a dimension to the one of the refugees. literature of Holocaust survivor mem- In devoting more than two years to oirs," says Oak Park resident Sidney the project, Falbaum said: "While there Bolkosky, Ph.D., William E. Stirton have been books and articles written Professor in the Social Sciences and pro- about this experience, I wanted to save fessor of history at the University of more of this history. It is important to Michigan-Dearborn. save as much as possible to assure that Falbaum spent 10 years as a reporter these stories are not lost." at the Detroit News, four years as admin- Among those featured in the book are istrative aide to Michigan's lieutenant Ernest Eick of West Bloomfield, whose governor and 15 years as a corporate mother "gave" him away for six months public relations executive. In 1989, he because she could not feed him, and founded Falbaum & Associates Inc., a Bobby Salomon of West Bloomfield, whose father was killed in a bombing by Farmington Hills public relations firm. He's a frequent contributor to the op- American planes targeting Japanese mili- ed pages of Michigan newspapers, tary facilities. Harry Lowenberg of including the IN He has taught journal- Farmington Hills also is featured. ism part time since 1968 at Wayne State A former Shanghailander himself, University in Detroit and is a former Falbaum lived in Shanghai with his par- instructor at Oakland University in I t is a little quirk of 1.5 0.1•1•411,14 42..r inC. 4 Animal Percentage Yitici 12 months $500 MICHIGAN HERITAGE Let us lend a hand *Annual Percenipge _Yield is eifectiw as of March 21. 2005. Penalty for t'.arly Broltacd amounts not clit bic. subjmi to change wfthout notice. Minis nun deposit of .55D0.00 required. FDI C Farmington Hills 28300 Orchard Lk. Rd. (800) 914-3524 4/ 7 2005 38 Livonia 18770 Farmingion Rd. (248) 442-9650 Troy 1917 E. Rig Beaver (248) 619-0264 /14.7 Storioa of. Sa. tho Sacepod to Snanghai fr. nazi Sur.. V•• , DMA. CoapittO 1st. Mit. 5, Sari nth..