(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 ...

When the Nazis annexed Austria in 1938, George Kolber’s Viennese Jewish grandparents, Josef and Eva Kolber, knew they had to leave Europe. Where they went, however, was a bit unusual. The two left ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 80 years after Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai during World War II, an exhibition in New York City shines a light on ...

On the eve of International Museums Day, the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum reiterated the city’s historical role in providing sanctuary to Jews during World War II. At a meeting Wednesday, the museum ...

In the late 1930s, as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of German and Austrian Jews, many countries in the West severely limited the number of visas they granted to refugees. But there was one ...

A compelling new performance is set to debut in November at Shanghai’s Jewish Refugees Museum, shedding light on how the city welcomed Jewish refugees in World War II. Conducted by award-winning ...

They sailed into Shanghai in July 1939 during the worst of the summer heat, finding a patchwork city of 4 million people throbbing with rickshaws, beggars, opium dens and malaria. For Gerd "Jerry" ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Four years after it was first conceived, the oratorio Emigre made its debut this month in Shanghai, paying tribute to the Chinese financial hub's war-time role in protecting ...

On 30 January 2023, the exhibition “After the Holocaust: Displaced Persons and Displaced Persons Camps” opened at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in Shanghai, China. The exhibition, curated by the ...

There is a little-known history from the Holocaust that there were about 20,000 persecuted Jews in Europe who found sanctuary in China. These Jews were “paperless refugees,” many of them from middle ...

More than 80 years after Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai during World War II, an exhibition in New York City shines a light on their experiences, which, experts and advocates say, carries profound ...

An exhibit in New York explores a little-known chapter of World War II. Where did 20,000 Jews hide from the Holocaust? In Shanghai In the late 1930s, as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of ...