Shanghai is Larrys birthplace and he recently returned there for the first time for the Harvard Alumni Associations "Global Conference in Shanghai." He was interviewed by a reporter for the newspaper during the visit. As the article states. Larry was born in Shanghai in October 1941. His father was a Russian American who had been living in northeastern China where he had met his wife. When war broke out between China and Japan in the 1930s. they moved to Shanghai to be safer. because the city welcomed Jewish refugees. The Japanese occupied Shanghai. however. and after Pearl Harbor. Japanese soldiers arrested Larrys father and held him in a concentration camp because of his American citizenship.
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