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Shanghai, Hongkou District, Changyang Street ... There is open for visitors the Museum of Jewish Refugees (Ohel Moshe Synagogue), created in memory of 25 thousand . Jewish refugees, Shanghai during the Second World War (1937-1941 gg .) . The city agreed to give shelter to Jews who lived freely and peacefully in the Jewish ghetto around the synagogue Ohel Moshe . After the war, many left China wherever - someone in Israel, someone in other states . But all of them, without exception, until the end of their days pom or this city, calling Shanghai a second home, and myself - the Shanghai Jews . And it does not matter that most of the Jewish Quarter in Shanghai has not survived to this day . Ohel Moshe Synagogue is a living reminder of tens of thousands of saved Jewish souls who escaped from the Holocaust .

The Israeli government and the Jewish people are still grateful to the people of Shanghai for their selfless help
The museum was founded in 1986 in the building of the former synagogue Ohel Moshe, erected in 1907 by a Russian Jew, and in 1927 it was moved to where it stands to this day. The synagogue itself is a historical and cultural value of the country, protected by the state (since January 13, 2004), one of the two remaining synagogues in Shanghai. The name "Ohel Moshe" is equated among the people to the words "asylum" and "salvation". In less than three square kilometers, there were hundreds of thousands of Jews.

In the small museum gallery you can watch a video about the appearance and life of the Shanghai Jews.

Netanyahu in the Museum of Jewish Refugees in Shanghai

The facade of the three-story synagogue building with gray walls decorated with red brick lines has not changed for many years, and the building itself, its stone doors were restored. Visitors to the Shanghai Museum of Jewish Refugees can get acquainted with its exposition and learn about the Holocaust studies conducted by the historian David Kranzler. Paying homage, the museum has a dead silence.

Different decorations, chairs in front of the central hall, which have been preserved since the time of the functioning synagogue, furniture - everything creates a calm and gracious atmosphere in the museum. All here, including baroque columns and walls (except for floor tiles), has survived since the time of Jewish refugees.

The entrance doors of the central hall are decorated with decorative engraving, on the walls - old photos of Jewish houses built by the Jewish rich man Sassoun, and families granted asylum in Shanghai. There are also a large number of exhibits from Jewish culture: clothing, household items, documents, scrolls, religious relics.

In the following museum halls, with the help of texts and illustrations, they introduce the stories of Shanghai Jews. One of the stories is about the thirteen-year-old boy Hans Kohn, who came with his family to Shanghai. His bar mitzvah was in the synagogue Ohel Moshe. Later in San Francisco, he became a cantor. He contracted a throat cancer, he lost his voice and when he visited Shanghai again he could speak and tell his story only with a special voice device.

The Israeli government and the Jewish people are still grateful to the people of Shanghai for their selfless help.

How to get to

Address of the Shanghai Museum of Jewish Refugees: 62 Changyang Street

Museum Opening Hours

Museum works from 9:00 to 17:00

Cost of visiting

Input: 50 CNY (Chinese Yuan).