Two Jewish refugee children pose with a Chinese man on a street in Shanghai.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45628

Date: Circa 1945
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN CHINA -- Shanghai/Hongkew Ghetto -- Pre-war/Wartime -- Daily Life -- Economic Activity/Street Scenes
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry Fiedler

Biography: Harry Fiedler is the son of Oskar and Berta (Gottfried) Fiedler. He was born July 7, 1940 in Shanghai, a year-and-a-half after his parents fled from their home in Vienna. Oskar and Berta were married in Vienna in 1938. With the help of their nephew, Erich Goldstaub (the son of Oskar's sister, Camilla Fiedler Goldstaub), they secured visas from the Chinese embassy and passage on the Italian liner Conte Bianco Mano. Twenty members of the extended Fiedler/Goldstaub family departed on November 13, 1938 a few days after the Kristallnacht pogrom. Arriving in Shanghai in mid-December, they found temporary shelter at the Embankment building owned by Sir Victor Sassoon. The refugee shelter was administered by the International Committee for European Refugees, also known as the IC or Komor Committee. Subsequently, the family moved to the Hongkew district, where they remained through the period of the Hongkew ghetto (1943-1945). The family emigrated to Canada in October 1949, one week before the Communist takeover of Shanghai.
Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS)
CHILDREN/YOUTH
CHINESE
REFUGEES (JEWISH)
SHANGHAI (REFUGEE SETTLEMENT/GHETTO)
SIGNS/BANNERS/POSTERS
STREET SCENES
VENDORS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Harry Fiedler

Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.A.830
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