But "Shanghai Ghetto," a documentary that opened this week in Washington, goes on to follow Jewish refugees as they find an unexpected refuge: China. Advertisement ...

Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann’s fascinating 2002 documentary focuses on a little-known historical sidebar of World War II—the Jewish settlements in Shanghai, which included about 20,000 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 … ...

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.

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.

Documentary about the plight of European Jews who fled Nazism and made their way to Shanghai, one of the few places in the world that didn't require a visa for entry.

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.