INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING AUTHOR DANIEL KALLA!
Next week marks the 70th anniversary of an historical event which Dan Kalla wrote about in The Far Side of the Sky, – where SS Colonel Joseph (“the Butcher of Warsaw”) Meisinger came to Shanghai with a canister of Zyklon B gas from Auschwitz to convince the Japanese to exterminate the Shanghai Jews. The Shanghai Jews were mostly comprised of 20,000 German Jews who fled Germany before the outbreak of WWII and found safety in the only city in the world that would take them in-SHANGHAI
This summer will be the 75th Anniversary of the invasion of Shanghai, by the Japanese.
It was just the 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor last December.
In the last year, the old (and last) synagogue in Shanghai (now a museum to the Jewish refugees) held it’s first ever High Holy Day Jewish Services (Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur). It was the first official Jewish service in Shanghai (or all of china) in 60 years. Here’s a link to a story: http://www.offbeattravel.com/tji-ohel-rachel-shanghai-opens.html
ER doctor and bestselling author, Dr. Daniel Kalla will be on a book tour promoting his 7th novel. Aside from his dual medical and writing career, he brings a compelling background as a third generation physician whose parents’ families barely escaped the Holocaust. Daniel captures that spirit in his seventh novel, THE FAR SIDE OF THE SKY (June 5th, 2012, MacMillan/Tor-Forge). It focuses on a short but extraordinary period of Second World War history, when the cultures of Europe and Asia converged as 20,000 desperate German Jews find an unlikely haven in war-torn Shanghai. The Library Journal just gave it a starred review, saying: “With its unusual setting and blend of terror, hope, and love, this historical novel deserves a wide readership.”
Chosen by TV Week magazine as one of British Columbia’s Ten Most Beautiful, Dan is an associate professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and ER department head who sat on the Vancouver Pandemic Planning taskforce. He has written six bestsellers that have been translated into eleven languages; two have been optioned for film. Dan is a natural on TV and radio with extensive media experience as an author and a medical expert. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, Fox News, CBC, Global and WGN. He is the on-air medical consultant for Vancouver television talk show, Urban Rush.
