Book Worm Magazine: Interview With Feng Shan Ho
Part A
Book worm magazine (BWM) interview with Feng Shan Ho
4th June, 1990
BWM: This week’s interview is with Feng Shan Ho on his new book “My Forty Years as a Diplomat”, that was released earlier this year. Hi Feng, first of all, tell me a bit about your early life.
Feng: I was born in Yiyang, Hunan Province, in China, in 1901. I struggled to get an education as a child, but I was helped by the Norweigan Lutheran mission. To this day I feel a strong gratitude towards them. In 1926 I entered Munich University and gained a P.h.D in Political economics.
BWM: You have recently released you memoir, “My Forty Years as a Diplomat”, about you career. What inspired you to write this book?
Feng: After my retirement in 1973 from my career in the …show more content…
The bullets hit the paving stones in the street. The ghetto fighters are struggling in a battle of a few versus many. On the roof an automatic rifle is rattling. The fighter will exact a high price in return for his life. Beside him are small flags – a red and white Polish flag and a blue and white Zionist flag.
Tomorrow at this time everything will already be over. I am calculating coldly. Now it is 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. I am looking at the clear April sky. They will take us to Treblinka tonight. When the dawn breaks I will no longer be alive. The calculation is simple – for the last time I am seeing the blue sky between the clouds.”
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Feng Shan Ho. (2013, February 6). Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. University of Minnesota. Retrieved March 16, 2014, from …show more content…
(1993). Washington, DC (100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington 20024): U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (1999). Resistance [Documentary]. United States of America: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Unknown (1950). Warsaw, Poland, Recovery of Emanuel Ringelblum 's "Oneg Shabbat" archive after the war. Yad Vashem Photo Archive, Yad Vashem. Retrieved 11 March 2014 from:
Book worm magazine (BWM) interview with Feng Shan Ho
4th June, 1990
BWM: This week’s interview is with Feng Shan Ho on his new book “My Forty Years as a Diplomat”, that was released earlier this year. Hi Feng, first of all, tell me a bit about your early life.
Feng: I was born in Yiyang, Hunan Province, in China, in 1901. I struggled to get an education as a child, but I was helped by the Norweigan Lutheran mission. To this day I feel a strong gratitude towards them. In 1926 I entered Munich University and gained a P.h.D in Political economics.
BWM: You have recently released you memoir, “My Forty Years as a Diplomat”, about you career. What inspired you to write this book?
Feng: After my retirement in 1973 from my career in the …show more content…
The bullets hit the paving stones in the street. The ghetto fighters are struggling in a battle of a few versus many. On the roof an automatic rifle is rattling. The fighter will exact a high price in return for his life. Beside him are small flags – a red and white Polish flag and a blue and white Zionist flag.
Tomorrow at this time everything will already be over. I am calculating coldly. Now it is 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. I am looking at the clear April sky. They will take us to Treblinka tonight. When the dawn breaks I will no longer be alive. The calculation is simple – for the last time I am seeing the blue sky between the clouds.”
Source C:
Bibliography
Adet, O. (2013, January 17). 'When the dawn breaks I will no longer be alive ' || For first time, rare Warsaw Ghetto Uprising diaries unveiled. Haaretz.com. Retrieved March 11, 2014, from http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/for-first-time-rare-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-diaries-unveiled.premium-1.494599
Feng Shan Ho. (2013, February 6). Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. University of Minnesota. Retrieved March 16, 2014, from …show more content…
(1993). Washington, DC (100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW, Washington 20024): U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. (1999). Resistance [Documentary]. United States of America: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Resistance in the Warsaw ghetto. (n.d.). The Holocaust Explained Website. Retrieved March 6, 2014, from http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks4/the-nazi-impact-on-europe/the-warsaw-ghetto-a-case-study/resistance-in-the-warsaw-ghetto/#.UyUrFvmSzpc
Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos. (2013, June 10). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved March 3, 2014, from http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005416
Suhl, Y. (1967). They fought back; the story of the Jewish resistance in Nazi Europe.. New York: Crown Publishers.
The Warsaw Ghetto: Smuggling Food into the Warsaw Ghetto. (n.d.). Smuggling Food into the Warsaw Ghetto. Retrieved March 13, 2014, from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Smuggling.html
Unknown (1950). Warsaw, Poland, Recovery of Emanuel Ringelblum 's "Oneg Shabbat" archive after the war. Yad Vashem Photo Archive, Yad Vashem. Retrieved 11 March 2014 from: