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How Shanghai Saved 20,000 Jews from the Nazis

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While most of the history of the approximately 30,000 Jews who lived in Shanghai has been destroyed, paved over, or carted away, astounding stories can still be discovered.

Natalie Pompilio

SHANGHAI—Before he starts his walking tour of Jewish Shanghai, Dvir Bar-Gal warns his audience that they will be disappointed.

“Do you want to see,” he’ll start, before finishing the question with “a Jewish cemetery?...

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Natalie Pompilio

Natalie Pompilio

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