Writers Tricks of the Trade Volume 6 Issue 2

Life Stories (Cont’d) In 1951, after more than one century in China, we, like many others, left to start a new, challenging life in nascent Israel. There's a sequel to this story. In 1996, at an Old China Hands reunion in Las Vegas, a lady approached, looked at my tag and jumped for joy. “I knew it—you look just like your mother!” She was Prissy, my mother's best friend. Incredibly—fifty years after the war they were reunited! My published book, Hiding in A Cave of Trunks: A prominent Jewish Family’s Century in Shanghai and Internment in a WWII POW Camp, is available from amazon.com. It details the Japanese Occupation and the culture and tribulations of the colorful multi-ethnic population of Shanghai, “The Paris of the East.” Ester Benjamin Shifren with another of our frequent contributors, Carolyn Howard-Johnson LISTEN TO ESTER on blog talk radio WRITERS’ TRICKS OF THE TRADE PAGE 7 MARCH - APRIL 2016

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