
Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel


Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel


Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel





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Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel
Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel
Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel
After the Kristallnacht pogroms in Germany and Austria in November 1938, the stream of Jewish refugees to Shanghai gathered momentum. Jacob Gesang, who had a publishing house in Berlin, was one of those Jews who decided to leave Germany and find refuge in Shanghai, the only place in the world where it was possible to enter without a visa at that time. Gesang opened a publishing house and a store selling Jewish and Hebrew books in Shanghai.
In early 1943, the Jews of Shanghai were moved into a ghetto that was established by the Japanese under Nazi pressure.
The calendar for the Jewish year 5704 (1944-1945) was printed in Shanghai at Jacob Gesang's publishing house and preserved by Helga and Friedrich Leib, a couple who met in Shanghai. Their families, the Broh family from Germany, and the Leib family from Austria, left their homes in the wake of the Kristallnacht pogrom and came to Shanghai. Helga and Friedrich Leib married after the war and immigrated to Australia.
Yad Vashem Museum Artifacts Collection
Donated by Judith Marilus, Israel
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