More than 80 years after Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai during World War II, an exhibition in New York City shines a light on their experiences, which, experts and advocates say, carries profound ...

Shanghai is applying to have the neighborhood that sheltered Jewish refugees during World War II added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Some 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis lived ...

Shanghai was the only option. That was what my parents discovered when they fled Hitler’s Germany. By the time they left, in separate journeys, they wound up in that international city in China, the ...

An exhibit in New York explores a little-known chapter of World War II. Where did 20,000 Jews hide from the Holocaust? In Shanghai In the late 1930s, as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of ...

On 30 January 2023, the exhibition “After the Holocaust: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps” opened at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai, China. The exhibition, curated by the ...

Visitors view the Jewish Refugees in Shanghai exhibition after watching two short films at an opening reception for the ...

The U.S. National Archives is opening to researchers postwar visa application records from the U.S. consulate in Shanghai, a potential trove for information about Holocaust refugees in that city.

The memories are visceral, a sharp poke in the gut: shattered windows and the mournful crunching of glass underfoot; the sadness of the Torah poking through mounds of ...

A new Jewish center has just opened in Shanghai, the first of its kind in China in 50 years. During the World War II, the city saved an estimated 30,000 Jewish lives by welcoming refugees fleeing the ...

Enjoy this semi-staged oratorio following the story of Jewish refugees in World War II Shanghai. Enjoy this semi-staged oratorio with the New York Philharmonic and an international cast telling the ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The time: World War Two. The place: Shanghai, where more than 30,000 Jews were sheltered by the Chinese during the Japanese occupation -- a saga now dramatised in a play that aims ...

SOMEHOW THE nightmarishness that attends images of Hitler and his growing empire never disappears. (It lingers even as you watch newsreel footage of southern cops turning their dogs on civil rights ...