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The remarkable thing about Jewish life in Shanghai until 1943 is that there was no persecution. The Japanese, allies of the Nazis, already held de facto control over most of Shanghai by 1939. In December 1941, when the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese officially occupied the entire city and later put citizens of the Allied nations into internment camps. Yet the central European refugees continued to live undisturbed.
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David Kranzler, “‘The Miracle of Shanghai’. An Overview,” in Exil Shanghai 1938–1947: Jüdisches Leben in der Emigration, ed. Armbrüster, Kohlstruck, and Mühlberger (Berlin und Teetz: Hentrich und Hentrich, 2000) p. 41.
A number of Polish refugees refused to move into the Designated Area, claiming they were not stateless. Many months after the deadline for moving, they were arrested and put in the Ward Road jail. At least five contracted typhus and died, while others became seriously ill. Kranzler, Japanese, Nazis and Jews: the Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai 1938–1945 (New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1976), p. 529.
The same word is used in the Terezin diary of Petr Ginz: Alexandra Zapruder, Salvaged Paper: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 169.
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Hochstadt, S. (2012). In the Designated Area. In: Exodus to Shanghai. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137006721_5
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