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Jewish Memorial Park opens in local cemetery

A Jewish Memorial Park was opened today in the Fushouyuan cemetery area in Qingpu District to mark the 70th anniversary of the World Anti-Fascism War and the survival of the Jewish Refugees in China.

A memorial stone with names of Ho Fengshan, a Chinese diplomat in Viena, who risked his own life to issue visas to more than 3,000 Jewish people in Europe to enable them escape persecution by fascists, as well as 24 famous Jewish people, who had contributed to development of Shanghai, was unveiled in the park.

The park has also started to seek clues from international communities worldwide to help locate old tombstones of any other Jewish people who died and was buried in Shanghai. All these stone tablets are planned to be placed in the park as an important memorial venue for both offspring of the deceased and the public to remember the history and the friendship between Chinese and Jewish people.

A Shanghai Jewish Memorial Cultural Fund is also being planned to set up to support infrastructure development, maintenance and expansion of the memorial park, as well as non-governmental studies to preserve historical memories shared by Chinese and Jewish people.




 

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