Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet was an Italian businessman and hotelier from the wealthy Baghdadi Jewish Sassoon merchant and banking family.
Chinese Civilians with Japanese Soldiers at Checkpoint (1937), a photograph by Victor Sassoon taken in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Sassoon Road in Pok Fu Lam
The Peace Hotel is a hotel on The Bund in Shanghai, China, which overlooks the surrounding areas. The hotel has two different buildings. The Sassoon House, originally housed the Cathay Hotel and is today the Fairmont Peace Hotel run by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts of Canada. The South Building was built as the Palace Hotel and is today a residence and studio for artists, known as The Swatch Art Peace Hotel. The two buildings both face the Bund, but are divided by Nanjing Road.
Front view of The Fairmont Peace Hotel
The south building on the left, north building on the right
The hotel in the early morning, July 1994. Locals are doing morning Taichi exercises across the street.
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel