China TV: Israeli PM Tours Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum 7/5/13
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China TV: Israeli PM Tours Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum 7/5/13
Israeli PM Tours Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum 7/5/13
PM Netanyahu Visits the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
07/05/2013 יום שלישי כז אייר תשעג
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the second day of his trip to China at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in the city's Hongkou district.
The Prime Minister and his wife toured the Ohel Moshe synagogue,
which was dedicated in 1927 and served the war refugees who fled the persecutions of the Holocaust.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said that his visit was the closing of a cycle. He recalled his moving visit to the museum in 1998 and added that it was a monument to the good heart of the people of Shanghai towards the Jewish People. The Prime Minister noted that the latter would never forget what happened in Shanghai and commended the preservation work that has been done and which allows everyone to experience the importance and exceptional nature of what happened there. He said that even as most of the world closed its doors to the Jews 70 years ago, Shanghai was among the few places that opened its gates. He added that while the fate of the Jewish People has changed significantly since then, when Jews could only plead to be rescued, today the Jewish People has a state and army of its own, and no longer needs to plead to be rescued. The Prime Minister said that we can defend ourselves. He asserted that we warmly welcome the friendship of the Chinese people, and pointed out that not only are we both ancient peoples that embrace the past and also aspire to grasp the future, we do so while remembering both the recent and distant past in which the Chinese people showed us their good hearts.
For the history of the Shanghai Jewish community and ghetto, click here and on the above links.
In the synagogue guest book, Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote to the people of Shanghai and the Hongkou district that the Jewish People would never forget the refuge and the kindness that they afforded us during the Nazi period, and added his greetings from Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Netanyahu thanked the Hongkou party secretary and invited him to visit Jerusalem later this year and concluded with the words, This year in the rebuilt Jerusalem.
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Tour of Jewish Shanghai
Recorded on March 13, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.
Former Shanghai Jewish Ghetto Tour / 上海隔都
The Shanghai Ghetto / 上海隔都, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees / 无国籍难民限定地区 / 無國籍難民限定地區, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkew district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts of modern Shanghai). The area included the community around the Ohel Moshe Synagogue but about 23,000 of the city's Jewish refugees were restricted or relocated to the area from 1941 to 1945 by the Proclamation Concerning Restriction of Residence and Business of Stateless Refugees. It was one of the poorest and most crowded areas of the city. Local Jewish families and American Jewish charities aided them with shelter, food, and clothing. The Japanese authorities increasingly stepped up restrictions, but the ghetto was not walled, and the local Chinese residents, whose living conditions were often as bad, did not leave.
The first German Jewish refugees—twenty-six families, among them five well-known physicians—had already arrived in Shanghai by November 1933. By the spring of 1934, there were reportedly eighty refugee physicians, surgeons, and dentists in China. On August 15, 1938, the first Jewish refugees from Anschluss Austria arrived by Italian ship. Most of the refugees arrived after Kristallnacht. During the refugee flight to Shanghai between November 1938 and June 1941, the total number of arrivals by sea and land has been estimated at 1,374 in 1938; 12,089 in 1939; 1,988 in 1940; and 4,000 in 1941. In 1939-1940, Lloyd Triestino ran a sort of ferry service between Italy and Shanghai, bringing in thousands of refugees a month - Germans, Austrians, a few Czechs. Added to this mix were approximately 1,000 Polish Jews in 1941. Among these, all the faculty of the Mir Yeshiva, some 400 in number, who with the outbreak of World War II in 1939, fled from Mir to Vilna and then to Keidan, Lithuania. In late 1940, they obtained visas from Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, to travel from Keidan, then Lithuanian SSR, via Siberia and Vladivostok to Kobe, Japan. By November 1941 the Japanese moved this group and most of others on to the Shanghai Ghetto in order to consolidate the Jews under their control. Finally, a wave of more than 18,000 Ashkenazi Jews from Germany, Austria, and Poland immigrated to Shanghai until the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan in December 1941.
The Ohel Moshe Synagogue served as a religious center for the Russian Jewish community since 1907 (currently the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, located at 62 Changyang Road, Hongkou District). In April 1941, a modern Ashkenazic Jewish synagogue was built (called the New Synagogue).
Much needed aid was provided by International Committee for European Immigrants (IC), established by Victor Sassoon and Paul Komor, a Hungarian businessman, and Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees (CFA), founded by Horace Kadoorie, under the direction of Michael Speelman. These organizations prepared the housing in Hongkou, a relatively cheap suburb compared with the Shanghai International Settlement or the Shanghai French Concession. They were accommodated in shabby apartments and six camps in a former school. The Japanese occupiers of Shanghai regarded German Jews as stateless persons.
In 1943, the occupying Japanese army required these 18,000 Jews to relocate to a 3/4 square mile area of Shanghai's Hongkou district where many lived in group homes called Heime or Little Vienna.
The authorities were unprepared for massive immigration and the arriving refugees faced harsh conditions in the impoverished Hongkou District: 10 per room, near-starvation, disastrous sanitation and scant employment.
On November 15, 1942, the idea of a restricted ghetto was approved. On February 18, 1943, the Japanese authorities declared a Designated Area for Stateless Refugees and ordered those who arrived after 1937 to move their residences and businesses within it by May 18, three months later. The stateless refugees needed permission from the Japanese to dispose of their property; others needed permission to move into the ghetto.
While this area was not walled or surrounded with barbed wire, it was patrolled and a curfew enforced in its precincts. Food was rationed, and everyone needed passes to enter or leave the ghetto.
The ghetto was officially liberated on September 3, 1945, after some delay to allow Chiang Kai-shek's army to take political credit for the liberation of Shanghai. With the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 and the fall of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949, almost all the Shanghai ghetto Jews left. By 1957, only 100 remained, and today only a few may still live there.
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The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkew district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts of modern Shanghai). The area included the community around the Ohel Moshe Synagogue but about 23,000 of the city's Jewish refugees were restricted or relocated to the area from 1941 to 1945[1] by the Proclamation Concerning Restriction of Residence and Business of Stateless Refugees. It was one of the poorest and most crowded areas of the city. Local Jewish families and American Jewish charities aided them with shelter, food, and clothing. The Japanese authorities increasingly stepped up restrictions, but the ghetto was not walled, and the local Chinese residents, whose living conditions were often as bad.
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The Jews in Shanghai and Hong Kong - A History I 在上海和香港的猶太人
In the lead up to the Second World War, thousands of European Jewish refugees sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Shanghai, one of the only cities in the world that did not require an entry visa. Shanghai provided a safe haven to these refugees, who were supported in their struggle for survival by the existing Jewish communities in both Shanghai and Hong Kong. This story is told through the use of unique and recently discovered records and photos as well as oral histories collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Project in Asia, Europe and the United States.
二戰前夕，數以千名的猶太人由納粹德國逃離到上海——少數不需簽證進入的城市。上海成為了他們的避風港，並得到早在港滬兩城落地生根的猶太人支援。香港社會發展回顧項目在亞洲、歐洲和美國積極收集了相關的記錄、相片和口述歷史，製成此片段和大家分享。
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The Unforgettable Shanghai
In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria (the Anschluss). As a result, about 180,000 Jews in Austria were faced with imminent Nazi persecution, and the only way to survive was to leave the country. It was very difficult for a Jew to get a visa from any of the consulates in Vienna. Dr. Ho Feng Shan rejected this anti-Semitism and decided to issue numerous visas to the Jews seeking to escape Austria after the Anschluss. With his help, thousands of Jewish refugees managed to flee Austria for safe haven in Shanghai.
Shanghai Hongkou Jewish Refugee Museum
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Sanctuary in Shanghai China for Jews during WWII
Shanghai Memories. China's Consul General in Chicago Zhao Weiping, attended an event held in Chicago, honoring Holocaust survivors who found sanctuary in Shanghai.
Manli Ho, Prof. Steve Hochstadt and Danny Spungen addressed the audience as well.
Manli Ho is the daughter of Feng-Shan Ho, the Chinese Consul-General in Vienna during WWII, who was given the title of Righteous Among the Nations for his humanitarian courage in issuing Chinese visas to Jews in Vienna in spite of orders from his superior to the contrary. The event took place at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, located in Skokie, Illinois. This program was produced and hosted by Richard Peritz.
The Shanghai Jews. Michael Blumenthal, Rachel DeWoskin, and Civitas Ensemble
The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community. Faculty member and novelist Rachel DeWoskin hosts a keynote by W. Michael Blumenthal, former Secretary of the Treasury and a Holocaust survivor who grew up in Japanese-occupied war-time Shanghai. Blumenthal delivers a keynote on the life of a community of more than 18,000 Jewish refugees who survived WWII in Shanghai, identifying intersections between that past and our present context.
Following his keynote is a concert performed by Civitas Ensemble's violinist Yuan-Qing Yu; cellist Kenneth Olsen; clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom; and pianist Winston Choi, of classical music composed by Jewish refugees and Chinese composers inspired by collaborations with refugees or by the musical legacies of the Shanghai Jews. Yuan-Qing Yu introduces the pieces and composers, telling stories of their connections to Shanghai, the war, and each other. She plays on a plays on a bow stamped with a Star of David and believed to date from WWII and soon to be added to a touring collection described in the documentary Violins of Hope. The pieces Civitas Ensemble performs here include Alexander Tcherepnin's Selections from Piano Etudes, Ode for Cello and Piano, and Sonata in one moment for clarinet and piano as well as Otto Joachim's L'Eclosion for Solo Piano; Jacob Avshalomoff's Sonatine for clarinet and piano; Wolfgang Fraenkel's Variations and Fantasies on a Theme by Arnold Schoenberg Sang Tong's Fantasia for Cello and Piano Fantasia; and Ding Shan-De's Piano Trio.
W. Michael Blumenthal's keynote was made possible by support from the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies; The Franke Institute; The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS); the Departments of Anthropology, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), and History; the Program on Creative Writing; and a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The concert by Civitas Ensemble was sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
PM Netanyahu Visits Ohel Moshe Synagogue in Shanghai
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Ohel Moshe Synagogue in Shanghai, which was dedicated in 1927 and served the war refugees who fled the persecutions of the Holocaust.