Overview
- Caption
- Pao Chia member with an armband examining the pass of a Jewish refugee.
- Date
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1941 - 1945
- Locale
- Shanghai, [Kiangsu] China
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ernest G. Heppner
- Event History
- In 1942 the Japanese in Shanghai established self-policing units, Pao Chia, composed of all men, foreigners and Chinese, aged 20 to 45. In the designated area, male refugees served several hours weekly in rotating shifts as guards for buildings and ghetto entrances where they examined passes.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005589.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Ernest G. HeppnerSource Record ID: Collections: 1989.243 - Published Source
- Flight and Rescue - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - p. 167
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Artifact Photographer
- Max Reid
- Record last modified:
- 2008-07-21 00:00:00
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1118609