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A street in the Shanghai Jewish Ghetto circa 1943. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
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The story of Shanghai’s Jewish community during WWII is now a musical

by Julia Gergely February 27, 2024February 27, 2024

(New York Jewish Week) — In the days after Kristallnacht in 1938, two German Jewish brothers flee their Berlin home for a place halfway across the world: Shanghai, where they […]

Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
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75 years ago this week: San Francisco was ‘Port of Hope’ for Jewish refugees from Shanghai

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky August 17, 2022August 17, 2022
Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
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Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

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(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
The Temple Judea building on Brotherhood Way, seen here around the time of its completion in 1964, is now home to Congregation Beth Israel Judea as well as Or Shalom Jewish Community. (Photo/Courtesy Congregation Beth Israel Judea)
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Newly merged S.F. synagogues announce new name: Am Tikvah

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss November 19, 2021November 19, 2021
Hilda Namm, 94, survived Kristallnacht and the Shanghai ghetto before coming to the U.S. (Photo/Liz Harris)
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A post-Kristallnacht escape by ‘the bravest person I know’

by Liz Harris March 26, 2020March 31, 2020
(From left) Hedy Durlester, Lotte Marcus and daughter Naomi Marcus at a Dec. 8 event in San Francisco honoring Feng Shan Ho, who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany. (Andrew Esensten)
Posted inBay Area

Israeli, Chinese consulates in S.F. honor ‘Schindler of the East’

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten December 11, 2019December 17, 2019
Jewish refugees arrive in San Francisco from Shanghai on the USS General M.C. Meigs, 1949 (Photo/Courtesy U.C. Berkeley Bancroft Library)
Posted inBay Area

Chinese food Kiddush and more as B’nai Emunah celebrates 70th anniversary

by J. Staff December 4, 2019December 5, 2019
(From left) Izzy Ullmann, Lisa Karpanty, Peter Ullmann, Shanghailander Ilse Ullmann, Dan Ullmann, Evelyne Kende, Ray Kende at Congregation B'nai Emunah, Sept. 8, 2019 (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
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‘We Jews had nowhere to go’: Shanghailanders step into the spotlight to tell their stories

by Gabriel Greschler September 12, 2019September 23, 2019

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