Refuge in Shanghai: Film documents the story of European Jews who fled to China in the years before and during World War II
By Dixie Reid — Bee Staff Writer
“Manny Hirschel was 5 or 6 years old when his father took him to a parade in Berlin. He remembers the Nazi soldiers marching in black boots and the crowd shouting, ‘Heil, Hitler!’ …
They left Berlin in December 1938, when Hirschel was 7 years old. He, his parents and older sister were among 20,000 European Jews who would find sanctuary 8,000 miles away, in Shanghai, China. Their story of escape and survival — and not knowing about Jews left behind being annihilated in Nazi death camps — is told in the documentary film ‘Shanghai Ghetto.’ ”
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