Category:Holocaust Refugee Children, China (subject)

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

Memoirs by John G. Stoessinger (1978)

• Otto Schnepp (M / Austria, 1925-2019), Holocaust survivor

• Werner Michael Blumenthal (M / Germany, 1926), Holocaust survivor

• Lorie Bellak (F / Germany, 1929), Holocaust survivor

Lorie Bellak came to China in 1939, when she was ten, from the Silesian city of Ratibor, Germany (modern-day Racibórz, Poland)

Lorie Bellak, born March 17, 1929 in Ratibor, Germany (Raciborz, Poland), describes her childhood in Ratibor; the growing antisemitism she experienced; her memories of Kristallnacht; her father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald; her family's decision to leave Germany; their sea journey to Shanghai, China; her first impressions of Shanghai; her experiences in the Hong Kew ghetto; her experiences with the Jewish community there; her memories of attacks by United States airplanes; meeting her husband; working at the US Army post exchange after the war ended; immigrating to the United States in 1948 with her husband; and her family life in Cleveland, OH and San Francisco, CA.

• George Zames (M / Poland, 1934-1997), Holocaust survivor

• Hannelore Heinemann / Hannelore Headley (F / Germany, 1936), Holocaust survivor = Memoirs: Blond China Doll: A Shanghai Interlude, 1939-1953

• Peter Max Finkelstein / Peter Max (M / Germany, 1937), Holocaust survivor

• Laurence Tribe (M / Poland / China, 1941), Holocaust survivor
• Morris Mike Medavoy (M / Ukraine / China, 1941), Holocaust survivor

• Francis Mankiewicz (M / Germany / China, 1944-1993), Holocaust survivor

• 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)