Shanghai, China

 
Links: The Chronology of the Jews of Shanghai from 1832 to the Present ...
In 1887 the Jewish Community of Shanghai came into official existence in a special ... At the turn of the century the Shanghai Jewish community, principally ...
 
History of Jewish Shanghai - Shanghai Jewish Center
Jewish life in Shanghai dates back to the beginning of the 19th century, ... Built in 1927 by the Ashkenazi Jews of Shanghai, it no longer serves as a synagogue, ...
 
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 In the lead up to the Second World War, thousands of European Jewish refugees sought refuge from Nazi ...


Jewish Life in Shanghai's Ghetto - NYTimes.com Jun 19, 2012 - A museum tells the story of World War II refugees and their time in the city.

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Take a historical walk through Shanghai's Hongkou District, the former Jewish quarter that became a ghetto in World War II.

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Oct 24, 2013 - An exhibition on the life of European Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II opened in Chicago on Monday, Xinhua reported.

 A Brief History of Jewish Shanghai - Schusterman Family Foundation
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 Saved in Shanghai - The Times of Israel
Aug 25, 2012 - 20000 Jews were protected from the Holocaust in the Japanese-occupied city. Nina Admoni, whose husband would later head the Mossad, ...

 Harry Leichter's, Jews of Shanghai and their History Site - Haruth.Com
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 Ledger listing persons registered at the Polish Consulate in Shanghai 1934-41 http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/polref/polrefindex.html Emigranten Adressbuch Fuer Shanghai (November 1939) http://genealogyindexer.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=555 Exil Shanghai 1938-1947 (Book & CD) http://www.amazon.de/dp/3933471192 The CD accompanying the book contains a copy of the 1943 census of the "Designated Area" The Lost Shanghai Jewish Graves http://www.shanghaijewishmemorial.com/tombstone.htm Photos of Jewish gravestones found in or near Shanghai. The cemeteries have all been destroyed, but some of the stones have been recycled... Horst Peter Eisfelder’s book http://www.avotaynu.com/books/ChineseExile.htm From the archives of the American Joint Distribution Committee comes a 241 page list of Refugees who left Shanghai between 1945 and 1950, including an indication of where they went: http://names.jdc.org/search-detail-legacy.php?id=180659 Yad Vashem has a list of over 1000 wartime deaths in Shanghai, including date of birth and death and previous town. Due to a poor quality original, many names have been mangled and may be diffiicult to find. Use the advanced search form and set the place of Death to "Shanghai". http://db.yadvashem.org/names/advancedSearch.html?language=en The Polish Consular Records are also available in the JRI-Poland database as described at: http://jri-poland.org/china/shanghai_polish_consular_records.htm A summary of unusual sources for Shanghai: http://jri-poland.org/china/china_peter_nash.htm BELONGINGS: post-Second World War migration memories & journeys Meet PETER NASH and see his Chinese vases: www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/belongings/nash   http://www.jewsofchina.org/jewsofchina/Templates/showpage.asp?...http://www.chinajewish.org/SJC/history.htmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKQNblzpfshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKQNblzpfshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiKQNblzpfshttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/travel/jewish-life-in-shanghais-ghetto.htmlhttps://www.google.com.au/search?q=jews+of+shanghai&biw=1324&bih=632&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=GsaJUpPCCJCyiQfpnoGAAw&sqi=2&ved=0CHUQsAQhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007091http://www.jewishtimesasia.org/shanghai/262-shanghai-communities/46-shanghai-china-jewish-communityhttp://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles2/china.htmhttp://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/being-jewish-in-china-scenes-from-a-shanghai-bat-mitzvah/62574/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005589http://gochina.about.com/od/whattoseeinshanghai/ss/SH_HonkouWalk.htmhttps://plus.google.com/113613326651211490779https://plus.google.com/113613326651211490779http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e60e7ecc-1ee4-11e3-9636-00144feab7de.htmlhttp://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/jews-in-shanghai-exhibition-opens-in-chicago/2013/10/24/http://www.schusterman.org/blog/clsff/a-brief-history-of-jewish-shanghaihttp://www.timesofisrael.com/a-young-jewish-girls-escape-from-death-to-idyllic-shanghai-during-world-war-ii/http://haruth.com/jw/AsiaJewsShanghai.htmhttp://www.shanghai-jews.com/http://www.loc.gov/rr/european/polref/polrefindex.htmlhttp://genealogyindexer.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=555http://www.amazon.de/dp/3933471192http://www.shanghaijewishmemorial.com/tombstone.htmhttp://www.avotaynu.com/books/ChineseExile.htmhttp://names.jdc.org/search-detail-legacy.php?id=180659http://db.yadvashem.org/names/advancedSearch.html?language=enhttp://jri-poland.org/china/shanghai_polish_consular_records.htmhttp://jri-poland.org/china/china_peter_nash.htmhttp://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/belongings/nashshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20shapeimage_2_link_21shapeimage_2_link_22shapeimage_2_link_23shapeimage_2_link_24shapeimage_2_link_25shapeimage_2_link_26shapeimage_2_link_27shapeimage_2_link_28shapeimage_2_link_29shapeimage_2_link_30

Subject: Shanghai Jewish Newspapers During WW ll Online; Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum Database

From: "Jan Meisels Allen" <janmallen@att.net>

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:22:35 -0700

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Shanghai Jewish Newspapers


About 30,000 Jews fleeing Europe during WWll found their way to Shanghai

China due to their "loose" visa requirements. Thanks to both the Leo Baeck

Institute and the Internet Archive, four newspapers are in the

collection-most of the writing is in German, some in English.  The four

newspapers are:

Shanghai Jewish Chronicle 1939-1945

https://archive.org/details/shanghaijewishch01unse


S. Z. am Mittag der Shanghai Post.  1939-1940

https://archive.org/details/szammittagdersha00ead


Acht Uhr Abendblatt  1939-1941

https://archive.org/details/achtuhrabendblat00ead


Shanghaier Morgenpost 1941-

https://archive.org/details/shanghaiermorgen00ead


Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum


About 20,000 of these refugee Jews lived in the Shanghai area known as  in

Tilanqiao, the "Designated Area for Stateless Refugees". The area is still

preserved. The Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum is located at the former site

of Ohel Moshe Synagogue and two exhibition halls. It is an important

component of the "Tilanqiao Historic Area" and serves to commemorate the

phase of history when the Jewish refugees lived in Shanghai.


The Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum has a database with name, occupation and

address information for many of the refugees. To search the database see:

http://www.shanghaijews.org.cn/english/article/?sid=34


The database is sponsored by the Consulate General of Israel in Shanghai and

built with the donations from Israeli enterprises


To learn more about the museum see: http://www.shanghaijews.org.cn/english/


Thank you to  The Ancestor Hunt for informing us about these two interesting

parts of Jewish history during WWll. See: http://tinyurl.com/na2j77t


Original url:

http://www.theancestorhunt.com/blog/shanghai-jewish-newspapers-during-world-war-2#.VbJul_ntpAH


Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee




Subject: Re: Shanghai Aufbau list [Names indexed at JOWBR - SITE CITE]

From: E Feinstein <ericfeinstein@yahoo.com>

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015


the [names of refugee Holocaust victims who were buried in] shanghai

[from the] Aufbau list were added to the JOWBR of JewishGen

over a year ago and are online [there].   all the best,


 Eric Feinstein,  Clifton, New Jersey ericfeinstein@yahoo.com



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               then:    http://tinyurl.com/k8keruv

            "List of Jews Who Died in Shanghai, China, 1940-1945 :

            Compiled From Aufbau (1945-1947) / By Ralph B. Hirsch.

            Data provided courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

            in Washington, DC. "

    I was not able to find a copy of the list at JOWBR but the names

    of refugee victims on the list are indexed in the JOWBR database.


    To search for graves at JOWBR - The JewishGen Online Worldwide

    Burial Registry - log in to JewishGen and go to the JOWBR start page:

     http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/


Under China in the list of cemeteries at JOWBR

    http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm

    If you look under Shanghai.

The "Blank Cemetery" name with 1433 burials is the Aufbau list.

   * Country: China (13 cemeteries, 2960 burials)

   * City: Shanghai (7 cemeteries, 1555 burials)

           * BLANK Cemetery Name (4 burials) (data online 14 June 2014)

    ******** BLANK Cemetery Name (1433 burials) (data online 14 June 2014)

           * Baikal Road Cemetery (30 burials) (data online 27 Dec. 2014)

           * Bubbling Well Road Cemetery (1 burial)

           * Mohawk Road Cemetery (5 burials) (data online  2014)

           * Shanghai villages (77 burials) (data online 11 December 2011)

           * Soong Ching Ling Memorial Park, Foreigners' Tomb Area

            (5 burials) (data online 1 May 2006)





Subject: (US-Shanghai) National Archives Declassification Center Opens Records of Shanghai Diaspora Communities

From: "Jan Meisels Allen" <janmallen@att.net>

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 12:05:56 -0800

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The (US) National Archives National Declassification Center (NDC) for the first time has opened to the public, the Visa Investigation Records of the Shanghai Diaspora Communities 1946-1951.


http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/shanghai-visas/


These are the visa files of the American Consulate General in Shanghai, China and include photographs as well as detailed information about individuals and families who sought refuge there.


The first release is 113 of the 1,300 case files as well as an applicant name index to all materials


http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/shanghai-visas/name-lists.html

[or http://tinyurl.com/mo3rw3b --Mod.]


The name list is also available for download in pdf format. As the case files become available they will be posted.  Many applicants were refugees who fled the Civil War in Russia, or Nazi persecution in Poland and Germany.


There is an in-depth historical review and web resource to other depositories with similar collections.


http://www.archives.gov/research/foreign-policy/shanghai-visas/background.html

[or http://tinyurl.com/n68dl4f --Mod.]


Jews have a long history in Shanghai.  Russian Jewish and Orthodox émigrés built an international city. Shanghai was home to prominent Sephardi families such as the Hardoons, Kadoories and Sassoons The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) provided aid and support to the Jewish and non-Jewish communities in pre- and post-war Shanghai, and the Hebrew

Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) assisted the refugee and displaced populations in receiving aid and facilitating repatriation or immigration. After WWll some of the residents perceived the coming civil war betweenChinese Nationalists and Communists and immigrated to Australia, Canada, Latin America and the United States.


Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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Subject: Re: Jewish refugee population in Shanghai

From: "Claus W. Hirsch" <cwhirsch@rcn.com>

Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:13:16 -0400

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The introductory comment to the posting on Jewish refugees in Shanghai states that about 30,000 Jewish refugees escaped from Europe to find refuge in Shanghai around the start of World War II. That number is incorrect.

The total from that source was 18,000, or 40% less than the number claimed by the Refugee Museum in Shanghai.


There were two other Jewish groups living in Shanghai during that period: the Russian Jews (many of whom came right after the Russian Revolution a generation earlier) and the so-called Baghdadi Jews (with Iraqi roots) who had come even earlier.


These two groups combined were less than a third of the number of European Jewish refugees. A majority of the latter were

from Germany or Austria.


Claus Hirsch,  New York City cwhirsch@rcn.com