"Shanghai Ghetto" unearths a fascinating but little-known chapter of WWII history, in which thousands of German Jews, imperiled by Hitler and rejected by British and American consulates, found haven ...

Evelyn Pike Rubin, who lived for more than 50 years in Jericho, estimated 81 members of her extended family died in the German death camps, victims of the Holocaust. But in a little-known tale of ...

SHANGHAI | Not far from the Bund district in Shanghai, with its hordes of tourists and view of the city’s famous skyscrapers across the Huangpu River, is a quiet neighborhood called Hongkou. Walk here ...

(JTA) — The neighborhood in Shanghai that was home to approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees during World War II may be added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. While the Nazi-fleeing refugees ...

With “Shanghai Ghetto,” we are introduced to a little-known historic adventure–one that brought Jews from Germany to China–with a big emotional payoff. In the 1930s, German Jews who feared the Nazis’ ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Visitors to a Lower Manhattan office building renamed to reflect a lucky number in Chinese tradition can, for the next few weeks, get a firsthand look at how China was once a ...

It was May, 1940 when Leopold and Maria Zimmermann and their two sons boarded a train in Berlin and set out for a 14-day trip through Russia, Mongolia and Manchuria. There, they boarded a boat which ...

As thousands of German Jews sought refuge both before and during World War II, many ended up in Japanese-controlled Shanghai. The story of these roughly 23,000 refugees is chronicled in the 2002 ...

In the spirit of "The Pianist," the documentary "Shanghai Ghetto" tells the fascinating story of a group of Jewish survivors who narrowly escaped the full horror of the Holocaust but are still very ...

The last time Bella Tresser and Chaya Small saw each other was nearly 70 years ago in Shanghai, where their families had taken refuge during the Holocaust. On Wednesday, the former schoolmates ...

KIM LAWTON, correspondent: Coming to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. is often a deeply emotional experience for Deborah Strobin and her older brother Ilie Wacs. Here, they relive ...