Meet the Author

Meet the translator of Berlin – Shanghai – New York: My Family’s Flight from Hitler by Dr. Theodor Friedrichs at the Rohnert Park/Cotati Library on Saturday.

The book is a vivid and factual account by an eminent Berlin physician of his family’s escape from the clutches of Hitler’s regime.
When the Nazi government cancelled all Jewish doctors’ licenses to practice medicine, Dr. Friedrichs was forced to emigrate. Dr. Friedrichs was able to bring his family out of Germany but then suffered eight years of deprivation and illness in Shanghai. Dr. Friedrichs describes these years of exile from his homeland with remarkable insight, maintaining a keen sense of humor even under desperate conditions. After the war, he and his family emigrated to America, where he rebuilt his life, practicing in New York for another twenty years.

Saturday, January 16, 2010 2 pm
Rohnert Park/Cotati Library