Shanghai Ghetto

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The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately 2.5 square kilometres (1 square mile) in the Hongkou district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the ghetto was located in the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts which formed part of the Shanghai International Settlement). The area included the community around the Ohel Moshe Synagogue. Shanghai was notable for a long period as the only place in the world that unconditionally offered refuge for Jews escaping from the Nazis. According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Shanghai accepted more Jewish refugees than Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. After the Japanese occupied the International Settlement in 1941, the Japanese army closed Shanghai to Jewish immigration. In 1943, the Japanese forced about 23,000 of the city's Jewish refugees to be restricted or relocated to the Shanghai Ghetto until 1945 by the Proclamation Concerning Restriction of...

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