Forgotten History, Jewish Enclave in Shanghai
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padre31Luxury BoxOPLost to the sands of time, the story of Jews fleeing Germany and winding up in Shanghai China makes for a fascinating story:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100522156
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5488614
Morning Edition, June 16, 2006 · A new Jewish center has just opened in Shanghai, the first of its kind in China in 50 years. During the World War II, the city saved an estimated 30,000 Jewish lives by welcoming refugees fleeing the Nazis. But Shanghai's Jewish history has been all but forgotten there. Now, some are struggling to bring this chapter of the city's story back to life.
Israeli journalist Dvir Bar-Gal is on a quest to recover the lost Jewish gravestones of Shanghai. Once there were four Jewish cemeteries here. But they were destroyed decades ago and the headstones scattered outside the city.
Villagers, either through ignorance or simple pragmatism, had put many of the gravestones to new uses. Bar-Gal says he has found more than 85 Jewish headstones in villages outside Shanghai, where they've been used as washboards, stepping stones and construction materials
And interestingly enough, one of the best selling books in China is a study of how Jewish Communities preserve wealth intergenerationally.
Regan21286New MemberI've read about them before. It's an interesting side-note historically but if the Jewish re-establish roots there, more attention would likely be paid.
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EshlemonForum Veteran"Sethdaddy8 wrote:
you know 6 million Poles also died in the holocaust.
"All Poles will disappear from the world.", Himmler
Most of Poles where Jewish...not trying to diminish any...but to be Jewish and Pole...:sad:
padre31Luxury Box"Eshlemon wrote:
"All Poles will disappear from the world.", Himmler
Most of Poles where Jewish...not trying to diminish any...but to be Jewish and Pole...:sad:
Yeah pretty much a death sentence.
Now also lost to history is the program that would take "misplaced aryans children (snicker)" from Polish families and hand them over to NAZI party supporter families, if a child had the "aryan attributes" they basically were kidnapped.
The Shanghai diaspora always fascinated me, like a European City was transported to China.
Sethdaddy8Forum Veteran"Eshlemon wrote:
"All Poles will disappear from the world.", Himmler
Most of Poles where Jewish...not trying to diminish any...but to be Jewish and Pole...:sad:
yeah , 3 million jews, 3 million poles, 3 million both jewish & polish...are the crude rounded numbers that i have found to be the estimate.