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 ...

To many American Jews, the extent of their connection with China takes the form of slurping lo mein on Christmas Day, an annual tradition paying homage to the proximity of the Jewish and Chinese ...

The World Jewish Congress and China’s government are preparing a joint commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Shanghai Ghetto. The People’s Republic of China and WJC intend to ...

In the late ’30s, when most of their ways of escape were being closed off, some 20,000 European Jews fled the increasing threat of Nazi persecution by immigrating to Shanghai, China. This may seem ...

Gift of Doris Fogel, in memory of her mother Edith Warschawski. A new Illinois Holocaust Museum exhibition offers a glimpse into the daily lives of the approximately 20,000 Jewish "stateless refugees" ...

“The Last Refuge: The Story of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai” (2003), directed and written by Xiaohong Cheng and co-produced by Noriko Sawada, tells the story of the roughly 18,000 Jews who between 1938 ...

Just when a cynic might think there are no more Holocaust stories to be told, yet another undiscovered perspective pops up on local screens. But even if you’ve seen The Pianist and The Fighter and ...

Leah Jacob Garrick took a leisurely stroll through China’s largest metropolis in April, exploring the sights, smells and flavors of Shanghai’s bustling Hongkou district. But Garrick, 77, was no ...

SOMEHOW THE nightmarishness that attends images of Hitler and his growing empire never disappears. (It lingers even as you watch newsreel footage of southern cops turning their dogs on civil rights ...

The memories are visceral, a sharp poke in the gut: shattered windows and the mournful crunching of glass underfoot; the sadness of the Torah poking through mounds of ...

Edie Shafer has a 'war story' unlike many: her family was one of the lucky ones to escape Nazi Germany, and lucky enough to find passage to a place that let Jews settle: Shanghai, China. She was born, ...

Survivor testimonies, plus a candle lighting ceremony, were among the poignant tributes paid during a Holocaust memorial at the Young Israel of Midwood in tribute to the 20,000 Jews who sought refuge ...