Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
Restored nineteen-twenties synagogue and museum honoring the Jewish refugees sheltered here during World War Two.
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This guide to the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum centers on the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, sealed off by the occupying Japanese army in 1943 just streets from where you stand, and on a Japanese official who decided, on a whim, whose paper stamp would be granted. You'll hear how thousands of European Jews reached Shanghai in the first place, the only major port that asked no visa of anyone, and about the Ohel Moshe Synagogue behind you, built in 1927 by Russian Jewish immigrants. One rabbi's answer to a governor's question about why the Germans hated Jews runs through the middle of the story.
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