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This exhibition, created by the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, shares a visual history of the Jewish people who fled Austria and Germany in the 1930s and 40s and settled in Shanghai, China, one of the only places in the world that would accept them. In 1941, when the Japanese occupied the city and restricted them to the cramped Hongkou district, thousands of Jewish refugees suddenly found themselves living alongside ten thousand Chinese residents in a ghetto less than one square mile in size. Despite these challenges, they adapted with extraordinary resilience, forging a new, unique culture with warm support from their new Chinese neighbors. Through photographs, quotes, documents and video, this exhibition relates the fascinating story of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees, as seen through their own eyes.
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