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Fred recalls his first impressions of Shanghai while, housed in a refugee camp, he and his family were adapting to life in China after having fled Nazi Germany in 1939. He notes that soon after their arrival, his family moved out of the camp to the Shanghai Japanese quarter.
China and the Holocaust, daily life / Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Helen talks about the overcrowded housing conditions she and her family had in Ward Road Heim—a makeshift refugee camp established in Shanghai, China, during the war.
China and the Holocaust, daily life / Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Henri Deutsch, a jewish survivor, who along with his family was rescued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes, recalls the Portuguese diplomat. Sousa Mendes, against orders from the Portuguese government, issued an estimated 30,000 travel visas to people escaping Nazi-occupied France in 1940.
clip, aristides de sousa mendes, visa, henri deutsch, jewish survivor, male, rescue / Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Yvonne talks about her maternal grandmother's flight from Germany to China, joining Yvonne and her parents in Shanghai a year after they had arrived there in 1939. Yvonne states that the remaining family perished during the Holocaust. She explains why her mother chose Shanghai as a place of refuge.
China and the Holocaust, flight to China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Gerald talks about his family's flight from Nazi Germany to China in 1939, on board of the German steamship "Scharnhorst." He mentions the instrumental role of Jewish relief organizations that assisted his family during the trip and describes his first impressions of Shanghai.
China and the Holocaust, flight to China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Henry describes his flight from Berlin, Germany, to Shanghai, China, in summer 1940 and recalls the family members he left behind.
China and the Holocaust, flight to China, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Judith reflects on the social relations that were formed among Jewish refugees of various nationalities in Shanghai, China, during the war.
China and the Holocaust, ghetto living conditions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva discusses the housing conditions her family had in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and describes the food available to the ghetto inhabitants during the war.
China and the Holocaust, ghetto living conditions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Judith describes the overcrowded housing conditions in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and discusses the general lack of privacy.
China and the Holocaust, ghetto living conditions, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Henny talks about Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official responsible for issuing monthly passes to inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China. She notes that, aware of Goya's poor treatment of Jews, her parents decided to cease their attempts of leaving the ghetto.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Berthold Katz talks about Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official responsible for giving monthly passes to Jews who were living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and remembers his brutal treatment of the ghetto inhabitants.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hans describes his encounters with a Japanese ghetto official, Kanoh Ghoya, while he was confined in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war. He speaks of Ghoya's brutal treatment.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva discusses a ghetto pass policy enforced in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war. Eva explains that she had to pass the ghetto checkpoint on a daily basis, as the school she attended was located outside of her living district. She talks about the impact from her encounters with Kanoh Ghoya, a Japanese official who was in charge of issuing the ghetto passes.
China and the Holocaust, Ghoya / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hildegard recalls her trip from Shanghai, China to San Francisco, CA, on the board of the U.S. Army transporter “Marine Adder,” in August 1947. She explains that the trip was sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).
China and the Holocaust, migration from China, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Hildegard talks about her arrival in San Francisco, CA in September 1947, after having spent the war years in Shanghai, China. Hildegard describes the joy she felt when her ship reached the shore of the United States.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Miriam discusses her family's preparations to leave China after liberation and explains the U.S. immigration policies established for refugees. She remembers her trip to San Francisco, CA, on the board of the "USS General W. H. Gordon" troop ship in June 1947.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Erich speaks of his mother's immigration preparations to leave Shanghai after liberation. He talks about postwar refugee emigration from China and discusses the immigration routes. He recalls his trip to the United States in January 1947.
China and the Holocaust, migration from China / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Lilli reflects on the hardships of her life in the wartime Shanghai, China, and discusses the coping mechanism she had developed as a refugee, learning to live one day at a time.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Miriam explains that the Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, had no intention to stay there once the war ended, and that helped them to retain hope in surviving the war.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva talks about the impact her experience of living as a Jewish refugee in China had on her childhood. Despite the hardships she had endured, she expresses her gratitude toward China for having provided a place of refuge to her and her family during the Holocaust.
China and the Holocaust, postwar reflections / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva describes various national backgrounds represented by Jewish refugees living in Shanghai, China, during the war. She briefly speaks of the cultural activities pursued by the Jewish refugees-inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Eva describes the patterns of relationships among the inhabitants of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, and focuses on the friendships she and her family had formed while retaining their humanity under difficult circumstances.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions, clip / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Erika details the relationships she had with the local non-Jewish population, while living in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, during the war.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Alfred talks about the relations between the Jewish refugees and the local, Chinese population in Shanghai during the war.
China and the Holocaust, social interactions / Thursday, July 11, 2013
Robert Clary remembers being taken with his parents from his apartment in Paris, France, on September 23, 1942, and relates they were deported to the Drancy Transit Camp shortly thereafter. He explains that his half‐sister, Ida, her husband and two small sons had managed to evade deportation on July 16th, but were arrested for deportation that same date.
clip, déportation, Paris, Robert Clary, male, jewish survivor / Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Inge and her sister Edith left Zurich, Switzerland for London, United Kingdom, to be reunited with their father after the war. Inge relates that her mother, who had made her way to Sweden after liberation, also joined them in England. It was 1946.
family, reunion, post-war, female, clip, jewish survivor / Thursday, July 18, 2013
Kizito Kalima, a survivor of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, recalls the negative effects of labeling in the classroom before the genocide.
rwandan survivor, male, clip, labeling / Friday, July 19, 2013
Pinchas Gutter recalls his arrival at the Theresienstadt Ghetto in Czechoslovakia two weeks prior to his liberation by the Soviet armed forces in 1945. He relates he refused to participate in the mistreatment of the German ghetto guards by Soviet soldiers during the liberation of the ghetto. He remembers the sadness he felt over the mistreatment of anyone even of perpetrators.
clip, male, jewish survivor, terezin, Theresienstadt, liberation, soviet army, Pinchas Gutter / Monday, July 22, 2013
From July 25 to July 26, 1941, 3,800 Jews were killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kaunas, Lithuania. As a child Masha Loen witnessed the pogrom in her hometown after her family tried to escape to Russia and were sent back to Kaunas by Russian soldiers.
GAM / Friday, July 26, 2013
November 8, 2012: Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda spoke at the institute's Sexual Violence Against Women During the Holocaust Symposium, co-sponsored by Equality Now. Ms.
Jane Fonda, event, reading, performance, presentation / Monday, July 29, 2013