Ursula
Bacon was a wartime resident of the Shanghai ghetto, which at its peak was
occupied by 20,000-25,000 European Jews. Although temporarily safe from the
Nazis, these Jews were surrounded by another fierce conflict, for they were
much oppressed by the Japanese occupiers. Ms. Bacon recently published
Shanghai Diary, a memoir of her experiences in the ghetto. Her talk, which
was part of Holocaust Memorial Week, 2005, discusses life in the Shanghai
ghetto.
