Juden aus Shanghai in Föhrenwald | Ein unbekanntes Kapitel jüdischer Nachkriegsgeschichte in Bayern
In the organizer's words:
In 1938/39, 16,000 to 18,000 German and Austrian Jews fled by sea to Shanghai via Trieste and Genoa or Hamburg and Bremen. The city was not a desired destination for most of them, but one of the few accessible places of exile that took in Jewish refugees.
At the time, Shanghai was a divided city under Chinese, Japanese, British, French and US occupation. The authorities were unprepared for the large number of immigrants, so that the new arrivals initially found living conditions disastrous. Thanks to the Jews who had been living in Shanghai for some time, and later with American help, the situation improved and a functioning Jewish community emerged.
Dr. Kevin Ostoyich, professor of history at Valparaiso University, Indiana, is currently a visiting professor at the Institute for Bavarian History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. His research topics include the approximately 300 Jewish refugees from Shanghai who arrived at the Föhrenwald DP camp in 1951. Professor Ostoyich will report on his research in a lecture and illustrate this special story with pictures. The Lady Lake group will provide a musical accompaniment to the event.
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Fee 12€, reduced 6€
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