I worked with a guy who was there as a child. Parents and siblings were on a ship that left Genoa and no other country including the US would let them off. China did and the family spent the war in Shanghai. Not much fun but they survived.
Wonder what they would think of our covid fiasco. All are gone now including him.
In the Chabad Chassidic community, there were several elderly men who spent the war in Shanghai. They nearly starved to death, but they were at least safe there from the Nazis. They’re known as the Shanghai Group. All gone now. I knew at least one of them.
Incredible - had to suck being in Japanese-occupied China, but still...the best outcome, considering what you said - no one would otherwise take them.