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Harbor From the Holocaust

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A Documentary. The film explores the relationship of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution and their adopted city of Shanghai. Nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, to the Chinese port city of Shanghai. They developed an extraordinary relationship with their adopted city of Shanghai, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937-1945 and the Chinese civil war that followed.