Twelve hundred Jewish refugees celebrate the Passover seder ...

Item ID	25257
Title	Twelve hundred Jewish refugees celebrate the Passover seder in three shifts at the dining room of the Jewish Recreation Club building.
Reference Code	NY_14360
Description	Refugees, most of them destitute, began migrating to Shanghai to escape Nazism beginning in 1938. The Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai (CAEJF) was organized that year, and JDC supplied most of the funds it needed. In 1941, Polish refugees arrived in Shanghai from Lithuania after crossing Siberia. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese authorities closed Shanghai to further immigration. But at the same time, they deported to it most of the Jewish refugees then in Japan and other Jewish refugees trapped in the Far East. All told, some 20,000 refugees lived in Shanghai at the opening of 1942, and 15,000 survived the war with JDC aid. About two-thirds of the refugees came from Austria and Germany, and the others were from Eastern European countries. JDC representatives Laura Margolis and Manny Siegel, succeeded in organizing a system of emergency relief, feeding 10,000 people per day. Between 1946, when emigration resumed, and 1953, JDC helped some 16,000 Jews emigrate from China.
City / Town	Shanghai	similar items
Country	China	similar items
Decade	1940	similar items
Photo Date Description	c.1941	similar items
Photographer	D. St. Koenig	similar items
Selected Search Code	Terra	similar items
Selected Search Code	CH-Rescue	similar items
Size	2 1/2 x 3 1/2
Format	Print

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