Shanghai Jewish Site Tour

To escape Nazis’ persecution, large number of Jewish people fled from Europe and relocated to Shanghai, a city with no immigration restrictions at that time. It is recorded that there were over thirty thousand Jews immigrated to Shanghai, the largest Jewish community in Far East.  Although in adversity, unyielding Jewish people built schools, newspaper offices, bakeries and synagogues. Some of these buildings can still be traced today in Shanghai. Museum for Jewish Refugees, ever named Ohel Moishe Synagogue, was the spiritual haven for those Jewish in Shanghai.  Monument in Memory of Jewish Refugees in Huoshan Park memorializes thousands of displaced Jews of those special days.  Most of Jewish sites are not in their original appearances, but surprises are there if you trace the old tracks in person.
*  North Shaanxi Rd and Nanjing Road used to be old market area with many Jewish retail shops;
*   The 6-story building next to Museum for Jewish Refugees was ever Shanghai Jewish School;
*   Shanghai Otolaryngological Hospital (No. 20 Fenyang Road) was Shanghai Jewish Hospital in later 1930s and 1940s;