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Shanghai exhibit tells refugees’ story
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THE traveling exhibition, “Amazing Shanghai,” to be held at the Rockefeller Center in New York from September 16-21, is composed of four themed exhibitions with selected photos, art displays and Chinese paintings. The exhibits traces the development of Shanghai and shows the vitality of the city’s life.
One of the exhibitions is “Shanghai and the Jews.” Contributed by the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum, it tells about how some 30,000 Jews sought refuge in Shanghai from 1933-41, some 20,000 in Hongkou. Most of them survived the war.
“It was not easy to collect documents and photos to build the museum,” says Chen Jian, director of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. “We benefited a lot from cooperation with overseas Jewish communities and research institutes. We are grateful to visit Jewish residents who shared their memories with us and enriching stories about Jewish people and local Shanghainese.”
The museum is housed in part in the old Ohel Moshe Synagogue, one of the only two synagogues in Shanghai built by Russian Jews, where the Jewish refugees gathered during the war. In 2007, Hongkou District government budgeted special funds to restore the building.
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