Community Corner
Screening of "Shanghai Ghetto"
Produced in 2002, this film describes how more than 20,000 German Jews were able to escape the Nazis before 1935 and settle in Shanghai, China. Although the Japanese controlled the city and treated Jews and others as “the enemy,” this group was able to establish a ghetto around the synagogue which still stands today, but is now a museum to the courage of this stalwart group. Their life in Shanghai, protected by the Chinese, and their fate have been little known until now. The film was originally narrated by the actor Martin Landau. Commentator: Daniel Leab, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of History, Seton Hall University.