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Ho Feng-Shan

Ho Feng-Shan poses for a photo taken while he was a Chinese consul in Egypt. (Photo/JTA-Carlos Avila Gonzalez-The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
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Novel about Chinese rescuer of Jews raises questions of fact vs. fiction in Holocaust stories

by Jordyn Haime and JTA February 14, 2023February 15, 2023

Ho Feng-Shan, the Chinese diplomat stationed in Vienna who helped thousands of Jews escape from Europe during World War II, never met Adolf Eichmann. But in “Night Angels,” a novel […]

Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inBay Area

Righteous diplomats of the Holocaust honored in San Jose exhibit

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 31, 2022March 31, 2022
Chinese diplomat Feng Shan Ho, seen here in China in 1947, is one of many foreign diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

To the diplomats who risked their lives to save Jews, we say thank you

Shlomi Kofman by Shlomi Kofman January 22, 2021
antique photo of the couple seated together
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Grandmother’s refugee tale and love story inspire musical

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