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Former refugees, diplomats applaud documentary of Jews in Shanghai during the war

By Yang Jian | November 25, 2015, Wednesday | Online Edition

A LOCAL documentary about former Jewish refugees in Shanghai was widely appreciated by former refugees and diplomats when it was screened in the United States.

The 90-minute documentary, made by Shanghai Television Station, interviewed six Jews who fled Nazi occupied Europe and found shelter in Shanghai during the World War II. They spoke about their lives in Shanghai and their current living conditions.

“The documentary which is the first local TV production to be screened abroad uses objective view to record that period of history in the city,” said Song Jiongming, director of the TV news center at the station.

STV spoke to about 40 former Jewish residents in the city but chose six to tell the story in the documentary. The 5,000-minute-long interviews of the 40 Jews are now with the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.

The documentary was screened at the Jewish center in Manhattan in New York last Monday and then at the Chinese embassy in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. It then toured across 50 US universities, starting from Georgetown University.

An audience of over 800, most of them former Jewish refugees, were present at the premiere in New York. Zhang Qiyue, Chinese Consul General in New York, Amir Sagie, Israeli deputy consul general in New York, and Liu Jieyi, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, were among those present.

The New York state governor, Andrew Mark Cuomo, sent a letter of thanks saying the documentary highlighted the history of over 20,000 Jewish refugees in Shanghai during the war.
The documentary will be broadcast on local TV channels soon, Song said. The English version of the documentary will also be shown on TV.

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