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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

Shanghai ghetto

Books about Jews arriving and living in Shanghai in the late 1930s displayed at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on May 7, 2013. (Peter Parks/AFP)
June 29, 2024, 7:12 am
How a Brooklyn dentist almost formed a Jewish homeland in pre-WW II China
Seeing a land free of antisemitism, Albert Einstein and Chinese leaders pushed plans to settle 100,000 Jews fleeing Nazis in Yunnan, the Himalayan foothills of China’s hinterland
By Harry Saunders
This image released by the New York Philharmonic shows Long Yu conducting a performance of Aaron Zigman’s "Émigré," at David Geffen Hall in New York on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. (Chris Lee/New York Philharmonic via AP)
March 1, 2024, 8:16 pm
Zigman’s ‘Émigré’ oratorio, about Jews who fled Nazis for Shanghai, has US premiere
Performed by New York Philharmonic, Émigré evokes a World War II-era sound reminiscent of Rodgers and Hammerstein; organizers hope joint project can ease US-China ties
By Ronald Blum
Ho Feng-Shan poses for a photo taken while he was a Chinese consul in Egypt. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images/ via JTA)
February 20, 2023, 4:45 pm
Historical fiction novel about real-life Chinese rescuer of Jews sparks controversy
The daughter of Ho Feng-Shan, a Vienna-based diplomat who in WWII issued thousands of illicit exit visas to Shanghai, protests the blurring of fact and fiction in ‘Night Angels’
By Jordyn Haime
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, center, gestures as he attends a memorial ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance as he visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, Wednesday, October 24, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)
April 6, 2022, 5:43 am
Chinese media keeps referencing the Holocaust – here’s why
Experts say China’s state-run outlets draw attention to the 20,000 Jews who took refuge in Shanghai during WWII to deflect criticism of the regime’s treatment of minority Uighurs
By Jordyn Haime
Rose Girone celebrating her 110th birthday on January 13, 2022. (Courtesy/ via JTA)
February 1, 2022, 9:42 pm
A Holocaust survivor spent her 110th birthday knitting – a craft key to her survival
Rose Girone fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, where her ability to knit didn’t just keep her family from starvation – her professional colleagues also gave her the strength to go on
By Tanya Singer
People visiting the site of a former synagogue at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on the day the museum reopened to the public after an expansion project in Shanghai, December 8, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP)
January 26, 2021, 11:10 am
Expanded Shanghai museum highlights China’s role as safe haven during Holocaust
Chinese authorities eager to draw attention to the 20,000 European Jews who escaped Nazi atrocities by sheltering in the city, where they remained throughout the war
By Peter Stebbings
Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld, center, with Liu Shaoqi, left, then-political commissar of the New Fourth Army, and Chen Yi, right, then acting commander of the New Fourth Army, in 1941. (Courtesy Austrian Institute for Research on China and Southeast Asia)
August 12, 2019, 3:02 am
How a Jewish doctor helped form backbone of revolutionary China’s medical system
As the Chinese army turns 92, government continues to remember Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld, a Marxist and Holocaust refugee who fled to Shanghai and started a medical school
By Ronen Shnidman
The child of a Holocaust survivor sharing his father's memories with residents of Hongkou, the former Jewish ghetto in Shanghai during WWII, in this still from 'Above the Drowning Sea.' (Courtesy Above the Drowning Sea/ Time & Rhythm Cinema)
April 29, 2018, 8:59 am
In new film, survivors recall placid WWII days in the safe harbor of Shanghai
Showing in LA on April 29, ‘Above the Drowning Sea’ documents the individual kindnesses in faraway China that saved 20,000 European Jews from Hitler’s killing machine
By Anne Joseph
1936 photo of Sir Victor Sassoon and three dancers who appeared at his Shanghai nightclub, Ciro's. (Courtesy)
September 17, 2016, 3:16 pm
How Jews once ran Shanghai, the ‘wicked old Paris of the East’
Montreal writer’s new book ‘Shanghai Grand’ spotlights a long and varied list of Jewish characters who helped drive the WWII haven’s dramatic bygone era
By Robert Sarner
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