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In 1926, professional musicians Constantine Shapiro, created in Moscow in 1896, and Lydia Chernetsky (Odessa, 1905) found and committed in Berlin, Germany after their individual families had suffered constant persecution in war-torn Russia, or the Soviet Union, as it was known after 1922. With Hitler's national socialism on the rise, staying in Berlin was for the newlyweds out of the question and they made a decision to continue their odyssey, first to Palestine, then China, to ultimately spend the World War II years in the relative safeness of Japan. In 1931, they found themselves in Japan, where Isaac, boy number four and author of this memoir, was created. A couple of years later, with World War II imminently looming, and the next bombing of Pearl Harbor, their lives were disrupted once again. In 1944, the Yokohama shoreline was banned for foreigners and the Shapiro family, including their five children, were pressured to go to Tokyo, where they survived unlimited hardships, among others the intensified tactical USA bombing campaigns on Tokyo. Procedure Meetinghouse started out March 9, 1945 and is regarded as the sole most detrimental bombing raid in history. The Japanese later called the procedure the Night of the African american Snow. During the subsequent American occupation of Japan, 14-year-old Isaac, being multilingual, was employed as an interpreter by John Calvin Munn, a USA Marine colonel, (later advertised to Lt. Gen.) who, when the warfare was over, paved just how for Isaac, or Ike as he soon became known, to immigrate to the United States. In the summer of 1946, Isaac arrived in Hawaii, at that time a USA territory, modifying the course of his life permanently.

Category: Japanese

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Publisher	seasidepress.org
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2018-01
Author	Isaac Shapiro

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