The story of these refugees -- by turns devastating and heartwarming -- is recounted in a new documentary, "Shanghai Ghetto," which is screening this weekend in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Rafael.

Grebenschikoff was in Shanghai, but the ghetto she lived in was controlled by the Japanese, who were mistreating people all around, Grebenschikoff said. The living conditions were poor.

That changed after America entered the war in 1941. Two years later, the roughly 20,000 Jewish residents of Shanghai were corralled into a 1-square-mile area, the ghetto.

"Shanghai Ghetto" unearths a fascinating but little-known chapter of WWII history, in which thousands of German Jews, imperiled by Hitler and rejected by British and American consulates, found ...

In the spirit of "The Pianist," the documentary "Shanghai Ghetto" tells the fascinating story of a group of Jewish survivors who narrowly escaped the full horror of the Holocaust but are still ...

The story of these roughly 23,000 refugees is chronicled in the 2002 documentary “Shanghai Ghetto.” By that time thousands of Russian Jews already were living in Shanghai.

With “Shanghai Ghetto,” we are introduced to a little-known historic adventure–one that brought Jews from Germany to China–with a big emotional payoff. In the 1930s, German … ...

“Shanghai Ghetto,” their assured, concise documentary, tells the story of the Jews’ experience and shows glimpses of what remains of the ghetto in Shanghai today.

Nothing is exceptional about Shanghai Ghetto, a documentary by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann, except the story itself: For a time, Shanghai was the only spot on the map that would accept ...

The documentary film features interviews of survivors and historians, rare letters, stock footage, still photos and footage shot in modern Shanghai, where most of the Jewish ghetto remains unchanged.

LAWTON: Finally in 1945, after the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese left Shanghai, and the Americans liberated the ghetto. Jubilation however, was short-lived.