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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | National News Weekly: Jewish Refugees Managed a Living

25 September 2016

Without newspaper reports, people would depend to a great extent on memories which are often distorted. The living conditions of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai were improving as time moved on, according to an increasing number of memoirs.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | My Father Married a Jewish Couple

25 September 2016

Wang Jiming was surprised to find his father’s name when he visited Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. His father’s name, Wang Zhenfu, appeared on a marriage certificate of a Jewish man and a Chinese woman as the officiator.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Horst Eisfelder: Photographer Recording the Life of His Fellow Refugees in Shanghai Ghetto

25 September 2016

Horst Eisfelder became a photographer when he took refuge in Shanghai. He recorded the scenarios of real life in the Ghetto with his camera.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Exchanging Corn Flour Cakes for White Bread

25 September 2016

During WWII, Jewish refugees managed a hard life in Shanghai, but their Chinese neighbors were even more difficult. It may be strange that a Jewish refugee exchanged their rice and bread for the coarse foods of their Chinese neighbors.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Classic Nostalgic Puppet Plays Sent Off Ripples

25 September 2016

After they arrived in Shanghai, the Jewish refugees had made attempts to change the art landscape in Shanghai. One of the results was the growth and improvement of puppet plays in Shanghai.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Peter Finkelgruen: Memories of a Shanghai Baby

25 September 2016

I was born at 138 Ward Road (now Changyang Road) in Shanghai Ghetto in 1942. Sixty years later, I revisited my birth place to relive my memory of my childhood as a refugee in Shanghai.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Rickshaw.org: Artists Soothing Broken Hearts

25 September 2016

Shanghai during WWII was just like what La Grande vadrouille presented. It overturned the popular conception of war. In fact, war is not only about misery, anxiety, horror or sadness.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | A Woodcut Painting Depicting Madam Soong Ching-ling’s Protest against Hitlerism Still Hangs in the German Consulate General in Shanghai

15 September 2016

It is an interesting and yet thought provoking experience. A journalist visited the German Consulate General in Shanghai and met with Dr. Wolfgang Rohr, the German Consul General in Shanghai, in his office two years ago.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Visas for Life

15 September 2016

During WWII, Dr. Feng-Shan Ho, the Chinese Consul General in Vienna, issued Chinese visas to Jews in Vienna in spite of orders from his superior to the contrary and even risking his own life.
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JEWS IN SHANGHAI | Vera: A Jewish Girl who Found her “Shanghai Uncle”

15 September 2016

Vera was born in May 1938 and came to Shanghai during the Second World War as a refugee when she was only 8 months old. She spent her childhood in Shanghai. She left after the war was over, and came back many years later.
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