Holocaust Refugee Children

Holocaust Refugee Children

China

• Ursula Bacon (F / Germany, 1927) -- <Memoirs> "Shanghai Diary".
• Alfred Kohn (M / Germany, 1927) -- later moved to the United States
• John G. Stoessinger (M / Austria, 1927-2017) -- <Memoirs> "From Holocaust to Harvard".

• Ilse Charny (F / Austria, 1928) -- <Memoirs> "Year of the Dragon".

• Betty Grebenschikoff (F / Germany, 1929)

• Evelyn Pike Rubin (F / Germany, 1930) -- <Memoirs> "Ghetto Shanghai" (1993)

• Harold Janklowicz (M / Germany, 1931)

• Sigmund Tobias (M / Germany, 1932) -- <Memoirs> "Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai" (2009).

• Helen Bix (F / Germany, 1933)

• Peter Nash (M / Germany, 1935) -- <Memoirs> "Escape from Berlin".

• Myra Davis / Myra Heller (F / Lithuania, 1936)

• Peter Max (M / German, 1937)

BIBLIOGRAPHY :

• David Kranzler, Japanese, Nazis & Jews: The Jewish refugee community of Shanghai, 1938-1945 (1976)
• Guang Pan, A Study of Jewish Refugees in China, 1933–1945

FILMOGRAPHY :

• Shanghai Ghetto, documentary (2002)
• A Jewish Girl in Shanghai, animated family film (2010)
• Above the Drowning Sea, documentary (2017)

England

• See Kindertransport

India

• Stephen Tauber (M / Austria, 1932)
• Tom Stoppard / Tomáš Straussler (M, Czechia, 1937)

Kenya

• Inge Berg (F / Germany, 1929)
• Stefanie Zweig (F / Germany, 1932) -- <Memoirs> "Nirgendwo in Afrika" (Nowhere in Africa) (1995), adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 2001.
• Giselle Berg (F / Germany, 1933)

Soviet Union

• Hanna Pankowsky (F / Poland, 1928-2020) - Memoirs East of the Storm (1999).
• David Silberman (M / Latvia, 1934)
• Marek Halter (M / Poland, 1936)

BIBLIOGRAPHY : Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union, eds. Atina Grossmann, M.Edele, and S. Fitzpatrick.

Sweden

• Leif Donde (M / Denmark, 1937)