Exhibition focusing on Jews part in CPC history opens in Shanghai-Eastday eastday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Ronan O Connell 5 April 2021
It is a symbol that looks entirely out of place. In central Shanghai, near the city s nest of gleaming skyscrapers, I spotted a timeworn brick building adorned by a Star of David. This Jewish emblem is small enough that few passers-by would ever notice it. Yet it testifies to of one of the most extraordinary stories in Shanghai s history, which took place here in the neighbourhood of Tilanqiao. This multicultural oasis was among the very few places Jewish refugees were guaranteed to be accepted
For thousands of desperate people in the 1930s, this Chinese metropolis was a last resort. Most countries and cities on the planet had restricted entry for Jews trying to flee violent persecution by Nazi Germany. Not Shanghai, however. This multicultural oasis – that included British, French, American, Russian and Iraqi residents – was among the very few places Jewish refugees were guaranteed to be accepted, with no visa required.
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From:english.eastday.com | 2021-02-26 19:40
A Lantern Festival reception was held in the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on February 26, gathering people engaged in friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Located on the site of the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue built in 1927 in Shanghai’s Hongkou district, the museum is the only one in China that documents Jewish refugees’ life in Shanghai during World War II when few countries were willing to accept them.
Since it was established in 2007, the museum has been promoting cultural exchanges between China and the world. Currently, the virtual exhibition hall of the museum had been launched on the website of Chicago Sister Cities International.
How Shanghai saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust
This photo taken on December 8, 2020 shows a man standing next to a statue of Ho Feng-Shan (also know as He Fengshan), a Chinese diplomat in Vienna who saved thousands of Jews by giving them Chinese visas between 1938 to 1940, in an exhibition hall at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on the day the museum reopened to the public after an expansion project in Shanghai. January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. STR / AFP.
by Peter Stebbings
(AFP)
.- As an infant Kurt Wick escaped almost certain death in a Nazi concentration camp by taking refuge in Shanghai, a little-known sanctuary for thousands of Jews fleeing the Holocaust.
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BOCA RATON, FLA
.- There is every reason this year to have a world view, says Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Arts Executive Director, as South Florida boldly ushers in the new year with the national premiere of Glasstress 2021 Boca Raton. Three years in the making, with 2020 being such a challenging year to coordinate an international exhibition of this size and scope, the effort serves as an important reassurance that art is an essential and enduring part of humanity. This is also a tribute to the resilience of Venices surviving the floods and continuing to make art through the pandemic. Most of these works in glass have never been seen elsewhere, and were handpicked by Kathleen Goncharov, the Museums Senior Curator who traveled to Italy in 2019. The new exhibition runs Jan. 27 through Sept. 5, 2021 and the Museum will feature online initiatives for virtual viewing. Watch the new video . More