Then why did Shanghai accept Jews?

Another wave of 65,438+08,000 Jewish immigrants entered Shanghai from Germany, Austria and Poland in the 1960s and 1930s. Shanghai is an open city and is tolerant of all kinds of immigrants. At that time, some diplomats in China issued asylum passports to these Jewish immigrants for humanitarian reasons. 1943, the Japanese occupation forces demanded that these18,000 Jews, officially known as "stateless refugees", be placed in an area of 3/4 square miles in Hongkou District, Shanghai. The total number of Jews who entered Shanghai during this period was equal to the total number of Jews who went to Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa. Many Jews in China later went to create a modern Israeli state.

During the Holocaust, Shanghai became an important refuge for Jewish refugees because it was one of the few places in the world that did not need a visa.

During this period, Jews were treated better than China, because the Japanese appreciated Jewish culture and history, and many Jews had relations with the United States. But the treatment of Jews is still not optimistic.

At the end of the war, Nazi representatives put pressure on the Japanese army and made a plan to destroy the Jews in Shanghai, which was learned by the leaders of the Jewish community. The war was over before the Japanese put it into practice.