4428/8329
Home /

jewish-shanghai-7756

jewish-shanghai-7756.jpg Shanghai Ghett BuildingsThumbnailsjewish-shanghai-7761Shanghai Ghett BuildingsThumbnailsjewish-shanghai-7761Shanghai Ghett BuildingsThumbnailsjewish-shanghai-7761Shanghai Ghett BuildingsThumbnailsjewish-shanghai-7761

The Shanghai ghetto (上海隔都 Shànghǎi gédōu), formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees (無国籍難民限定地区 Wú guójí nànmín xiàndìng dìqū?), was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, to which about 23,000 Jewish refugees were relocated by the Japanese-issued Proclamation Concerning Restriction of Residence and Business of Stateless Refugees after having fled from German-occupied Europe before and during World War II.

The refugees were settled in the poorest and most crowded area of the city. Local Jewish families and American Jewish charities aided them with shelter, food and clothing. The Japanese authorities increasingly stepped up restrictions, but the ghetto was not walled, and the local Chinese residents, whose living conditions were often as bad, did not leave.

Author
Sven Tetzlaff
Dimensions
3744*5616
File
jewish-shanghai-7756.jpg
File size
11969 KB
Albums
Visits
1903

0 comments