Category:Holocaust Refugee Children, China (subject)

Memoirs by John G. Stoessinger (1978)

Holocaust Refugee Children, China

Overview

A school class of Jewish refugee children, including Hannelore Mansbacher (seated 2nd row, on the end at far right), at Transition Upper school on Kinchow Road in Shanghai, China. (USHMM)

A troop of boy scouts stands at attention during a gathering in Shanghai.

The Children

• 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)

• Mary Steinhauser (F / Austria, 1938)

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)