Harbor from the Holocaust

Professor Emeritus Irene Eber

Professor Emeritus Irene Eber of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem was an early advisor to the documentary. Author of "Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City," Eber’s own story is that of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who escaped and hid for two years in a chicken coop belonging to a Polish family.

Professor Emeritus Irene Eber

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    Harbor from the Holocaust is the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, to the Chinese port city of Shanghai. Explore the extraordinary relationship of these Jews and their adopted city of Shanghai, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937-1945 and the Chinese civil war that followed.

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