[BGHater]

Link has a photo gallery of Shanghai History.

[SolidWood]

What a shame.

[ReneeLynn]

I saw the documentary ‘Shanghai Ghetto’ a few years ago. Before that I had no idea that some Jews had found sanctuary in China.

I doubt the Chinese gov’t will give a hoot about preserving this place though.

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks BGHater!

In the 1930s, Shanghai was the only place in the world to offer visa-free sanctuary to Jews fleeing Nazism -- 20,000 ended up in Shanghai. In 1943, the Japanese restricted them to a one-square-mile area, which became known as Little Vienna.

Not the first time Jews wound up in China:

Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng by Xin Xu tr by Beverly Friend illus by Ting Cheng reviewed

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[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

A dear friend passed through there after escaping the Holocaust. He wrote a book about it, unfortunately available only in German: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL290415M. Harrowing and moving. Tragically, the world forgets far too soon. I fear there will be similar books written fifty years from now.