The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is a museum commemorating the Jewish refugees who lived in Shanghai after fleeing Europe to escape Nazi persecution. It is located at the former Ohel Moshe or Moish
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum courtyard
A closeup view of the former synagogue
Monument on display at the entrance to the museum, with Chinese flag
Shanghai Ghetto
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The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately 2.5 square kilometres in the Hongkou district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai. The area
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
…items documenting the lives of some of the more than 20,000 Jewish residents of the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, better known as the Shanghai Ghetto, during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. The museum is situated in what was once the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai, which had had a Jewish community…
Seward Road in the ghetto in 1943
1940 issued visa by consul Sugihara in Lithuania
Current view of once important business area in the ghetto, the intersection of Huoshan Road and Zhoushan Road, also calle "Little Vienna", for its many cafés and street life
Former site of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee