A compact Taoist temple with bright red walls and intricate roof carvings sits along the busy street. While this building predates the arrival of European refugees by nearly a century, its presence created an immediate cultural crossroads.…
Hongkou Jewish Ghetto Walk
This historic walk through the former Hongkou Jewish Ghetto reveals the moving story of WWII European refugees who found sanctuary in Shanghai. You will visit the preserved residential lanes, historic community spaces, and memorial parks that hosted a remarkable era of cultural co-existence.
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1. Xiahai Temple
2. Zhoushan Road
Zhoushan Road features low, gray brick row houses with small balconies that look like a slice of nineteen thirties London dropped into the middle of Shanghai. During the Second World War, these buildings housed thousands of Jewish refugees…
3. Baima Coffee
The Baima Coffee shop occupies a corner of a red brick building on Changchun Road that once housed a refuge for Jewish refugees. During the nineteen thirties and forties, the address served as a landing point for families fleeing Europe,…
4. Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum occupies the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue, distinguished by its red brick facade and the tall, arched windows that have looked out over Changyang Road since nineteen oh seven. This building served as a…
5. Site of the American Jewish Joint Succour Committee （JDC）
The three-story brick building on Huoshan Road sits with a quiet, worn permanence in the middle of the old Hongkou neighborhood. During the second World War, this became the nerve center for the American Jewish Joint Distribution…
6. Huoshan Park
Huoshan Park sits behind a low wall in Hongkou, marked by a bronze relief of a face in profile near the main gate. During the nineteen thirties and forties, this neighborhood served as the primary residence for thousands of Jewish refugees…