Manli says the book distorts elements of her father’s story, which was unknown before she spent decades documenting his heroic efforts to issue visas allowing Jews to escape to Shanghai. That detail is one of many that has spurred Ho Manli, Feng-Shan’s daughter, to speak out against “Night Angels,” the fourth novel by the Chinese-American author Weina Dai Randel. TAIPEI ( JTA ) - Ho Feng-Shan, the Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna who helped thousands of Jews escape from Europe during World War II, never met Adolf Eichmann.īut in “Night Angels,” a novel based on his life, Feng-Shan comes face to face with Eichmann several times - and his wife Grace’s Jewish tutor, Lola, tries to kill the architect of the Holocaust.
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