Where Did 20,000 Jews Hide From The Holocaust? In Shanghai: NPR

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3. I had, as he described himself as a "Shanghai Jew" as a patient a bunch of years ago

He was about 90 or so at the time. My procedures were a bit long so I usually started a conversation to ease the boredom of the test..
Lots of waiting for the medicine to get where it was suppose to go.
Anyhoo this gent proceeds to tell me of his familys escape from Europe to Shanghai in late
1939-40. He spoke fluent Russian, Yiddish, Mandarin and English. He said where they were the occupying Japanese troops did not bother them.
They were HELL on the Chinese though.
They would help the Chinese any chance they could get at great peril.
What a fascinating guy that had such a great attitude on life..
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