Shanghai Ghetto |  | Directors: Amir Mann, Dana Janklowicz-Mann
Actors: Irene Eber, I. Betty Grebenschikoff, Harold Janklowicz, Alfred Kohn, David Kranzler
Studio: New Video Group
Category: DVD
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Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: NVGD9695D
ISBN: 0767076907
UPC: 767685969533
EAN: 9780767076906
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: January 25, 2005
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Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 01/25/2005 Run time: 95 minutes
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 where are local people November 13, 2009
Y. WANG (New York, NY YSA)
The most touching words come in the end, which really bring me into thinking. The documentary is good, the only regret is that it doesn't talk much about the local people as I expected before watching this movie. I am a 1986 born local Shanghainese.
WW II Jewish refugees' experiences in Shanghai January 7, 2009
z hayes (plano,texas)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Shanghai Ghetto" was a very interesting viewing experience for me. Though I am very familiar with the Holocaust, I did not really acquaint myself with the history of the Jewish refugees experiences in China during WW II. Watching this documentary was thus an educational experience for me.
The beginning of the documentary briefly traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis and how persecution of the Jews begun soon after. This precipitated large-scale Jewish emigration out of Germany, and one unique location was Shanghai, about 8,000 miles away from Germany. Initially one of the reasons some Jews opted to go to Shanghai was because they didn't require a visa to get there. The journey by sea was on board the SS Hakozaki Maru, a steamer which was actually a luxury ship [the only means by which the refugees could get there].
We are given some background information as to how intially very affluent Jews settled in Shanghai, the Baghdadi Jews. This was later followed by the Russian Jews. When the German Jews began arriving, they were housed in a squalid area that became known as the Shanghai Ghetto. The conditions were far from sanitary but as some surviving refugees testified - the conditions were far better than the living conditions of the poor Chinese they had displaced.
We also learn how the Jewish Baghdadi community helped these German refugees out by setting up soup kitchens, temporary housing etc - duties which were later taken over by the JDC [the Joint Distribution Committee] and included the setting up of a makeshift hospital. Despite the best efforts of their benefactors, the refugees still lived in intolerable conditions - diseases were rampant and flooding was common.
This documentary provides an insightful look into the Jewish refugees' experiences in war-time Shanghai, and is a valuable addition to any DVD library dealing with the Holocaust/ WW II.
WW II Jews as Shanghai neighbors August 21, 2008
Walter W. Ko (St Louis, MO United States)
This is a well made documentary about WW II Jews escaped and took sanctuary in Shanghai, China. In the 1930s, Nazi Germany systematically implemented the Holocaust to get rid of Jews. The lucky ones escaped by ships but found many countries turned their backs and them back to Europe to be exterminated.
The Chinese Consul General in Austria, Feng-shan Ho issued over twenty thousand visas for Jews to flee to Shanghai China. This film tells personal stories of the Jews who valued and treasured this survival experience in an alien land of culture in "among all four seas are brothers and sisters" in practicing "love your neighbors as yourself". Jewish people whether long time settlers of Kaifeng or in 1930s Shanghai never have to worry about anti-Semitism. It was wonderful to hear the Shanghai Ghetto Jews told their stories and returned for home coming. I met a few Shanghai Jews who shared their story, family history and personal belongings in St Louis Holocaust Museum and Learning Center. I had the honor to attend this film premier show with them.
This film reminded that Jews in Europe under Nazi Germany and Chinese in Asia under Imperial Japan suffered heavily in WW II. Germany did the right thing to close the history chapter by apology and compensation with education for the younger generation. However, her Asian Ally - Japan does not have the moral courage to show remorse with attrition. Instead, they systematically worship at the Tokyo Yasukuni Shrine where housed the convicted Class A War Criminals in an attempt to resurrect militarism besides whitewash, distort and deny their aggressive war crimes in slave labor, comfort women, germ/chemical warfare, and massacres.
This film reaffirms the friendship between Jewish and Chinese peoples in difficult war time with mutual support. By working together with people of peace with justice, we will keep vigilant in preventing the horror of crime against humanity from happening again.
 fascinating history, compelling stories July 23, 2008
Daniel B. Clendenin (www.journeywithjesus.net)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This documentary recounts the history of some 20,000 Jews who fled 8,000 miles from Europe to Shanghai during World War II when most all other countries had closed their borders to them. At the time, much of China, including Shanghai, was occupied and controlled by Japan. Because of their own racist stereotypes, the Japanese feared the Jews, and so allowed the refugees to exist in the "Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees" with the help of wealthy Baghdadi and poorer Russian Jews who had already settled there, along with western aid. A rich cultural life emerged that included schools, theater, newspapers, and music. As one of the poorest sections of Shanghai, life for the local Chinese who lived together with the Jews was often worse. After Pearl Harbor, American attacks on the Japanese in China made the horrible conditions in Shaghai even worse. The film draws upon archival footage, diaries, letters, historians, and, most powerfully of all, interviews with a half dozen survivors who were children of eight to ten years old at the time.
A must see! August 7, 2007
Ethyl (Los Angeles)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I saw this film initially at the SF Jewish Film Festival. Before this initial viewing I was unfamiliar with the imigration of Jews to Shanghai during the holocust. The film is informative and beautifully made. A must see for WWII, hollocast and documentary film junkies.
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