It's Shanghai Jewish refugees center

Posted by Elizabeth on July 21 2012, 20:45pm

During World War 2, a lot of Jews escaped Europe and some of them went to China, and more precisely to Shanghai. Actually I didn’t know about that but it was approximately 30 000 Jews that were fostered in Shanghai at that time.

I went to visit the main synagogue of those Jews, which has now become a museum full of testimonies of the Jewish expats. It is located in Hongkou which was the area in which basically all the Jews lived.

It was extremely moving, seeing all these testimonies of people thanking China for its help, people describing Shanghai as heaven on earth. I put myself in their shoes, could you imagine leaving everything you know, your culture, and arriving to a different world with nothing, and still think it’s heaven. What must have they been through to think that?

The Jewish Chronicle was edited and published in Shanghai. It was written in German

Pistures of Jewish refugees of Shanghai

It's an excursion: Hangzhou

It's Jing'an temple

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