Download or read book Witness to History: From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resilience written by Paul Hoffmann and published by Earnshaw Books Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of an Austrian Jewish refugee, Paul Hoffman, who landed in Shanghai in 1938 and lived there for 13 years, making the most of the last years of the foreign-dominated world of old Shanghai.