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Berta Fiedler, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, poses with her son Harry on a bridge at the waterfront in Shanghai.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45629
Berta Fiedler, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, poses with her son Harry on a bridge at the waterfront in Shanghai.

Berta Fiedler, a Jewish refugee from Vienna, poses with her son Harry on a bridge at the waterfront in Shanghai.

Date
1943 - 1944
Photo Designation
JEWISH LIFE IN CHINA -- Shanghai/Hongkew Ghetto -- Pre-war/Wartime -- Daily Life -- Families/Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry Fiedler
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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.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Harry Fiedler
Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.A.830
 
Record last modified: 2015-05-07 00:00:00
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