Haven for Holocaust Victims from Nazi Europe

Haven for Holocaust Victims from Nazi Europe

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From 1933 to 1941, Shanghai accepted over thirty thousand Jewish
refugees coming from Europe. Excluding those who left Shanghai for
other countries, the city contained a total of 25,000 Jewish refugees
as the Pacific War erupted. This means that Shanghai accepted more
Jewish refugees than those taken in by Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
South Africa and India combined.

The Nazis and their accessories not only killed six million Jews in
Europe but also posed serious threats against Jewish communities
outside Europe. including the Jewish community in Shanghai. In July,
1942, eight months after the Pacific War broke out. Colonel Josef
Meisinger, chief representative of the Nazi Gestapo to Japan, arrived
in Shanghai and put forward the plan Final Solution in Shanghai" to
Japanese authorities. Although "the Meisinger Plan was not put into
effect due to differences in dealing with Jews between the Japanese
and German governments, the Japanese authorities proclaimed The
Designated Area for Stateless Refugees , ordering the refugees who had
arrived in Shanghai from Europe since 1937 to move into the area
within a month. The pressure of Nazi Germany and the caprice of
Japan's policy towards Jews put Shanghai Jews in difficult,
unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous straits for nearly four years.
But, at last, almost all Shanghai Jews, not only Central European
Jewish refugees but also the Sephardic congregation and Russian Jews,
survived the Holocaust and war, mainly depending upon their own mutual
aid and the great support from American Jews and Chinese people.

Just like "Schindler" , "Wallenberg" and "Sugihara", "Shanghai" has
now become a synonym of "rescue" and "haven" in the annals of the
Holocaust.

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"Lawrence Ling"

can you please stop spamming

This is a newsgroup about travel
in this century, not 50 years ago