The Anschluss occurs , and Nini desperately tries to secure tickets to Shanghai . She receives help from Herr Berger , a Gentile Vienna lawyer , and obtains tickets for her family and for her friend 's parents . The book then mentions the infamous Kristallnacht and the lead up to their departure . In Chapter 19 , the Karpel family arrives in Shanghai . They struggle to survive through the poverty and violence that greets them on arrival and to the moving of most Jews into a ghetto in the Hongkou District . During that time , they purchase ownership in a bar owned by Marco , a Bulgarian Jew ; this is where Nini heard the song " Ten Green Bottles " . The book ends with the family leaving Shanghai for Richmond Hill , Canada
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Ten Green Bottles (book)