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German-Jewish Cultural Heritage in China

German-Jewish Cultural Heritage

China

Overview

Finding refuge in Shanghai

A view of old Shanghai as refugees from Europe would have seen upon arrival.

As more and more Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria desperately tried to escape Nazi terror at the end of the 1930s, there were few places for them to find refuge. But Shanghai remained an option.

Journey into the past

Sonja Mühlberger's Shanghai

Sonja Mühlberger on the streets of Shanghai

Sonja Mühlberger was born in Shanghai, where her parents had found refuge from the Nazi regime. The city of her childhood has changed dramatically. And yet she can still find traces of the old, Jewish Shanghai.

German-Jewish Cultural Heritage

Deutsch-jüdisches Kulturerbe weltweit

Культурное наследие немецких евреев

Culture shock and survival

For Sonja Mühlberger's family, Shanghai was a secure haven during the Holocaust.