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Re: The Yu Tai of Shanghai
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2014, 09:49:15 PM »
I have spoken about the rescue of Jews in Shanghai previously. I used to be friends with a women who had family who were rescued from the Shoah by going to Shanghai, and my Rabbi had a Chinese Purim last year where he discussed his family rescue by Sugihara...

See my discussion of this rescue in my post @
http://jtf.org/forum/index.php/topic,67477.msg584793.html#msg584793

As mentioned at the site you link to :

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This group of refugees remained in Kobe until 1941, at which point the Japanese government sent them to Shanghai. The Dutch consul, Jan Zwartendijk, was later fired in disgrace, while the Japanese consul, Chiune Sugihara was merely asked to step down. Sugihara, who saved 10,000 Jews total and is listed by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, is typically perceived as the Oskar Schindler of the East. However, it is probable that his actions were merely in line with general Japanese policy towards the Jews, which will be expounded upon below.
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Re: The Yu Tai of Shanghai
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 03:25:46 AM »
In the real world, China is a better friend to Israel than America.
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