Tales of escape and survival from the Holocaust have long been the subject of books, movies and documentaries. But the story of the estimated 20,000 Jews who found sanctuary in Shanghai, China, is ...

Passport photo of 11-year-old Lotte Lustig. A red "J" stamp designates her as a Jew. COURTESY HO MANLI Until July 1937, the Chinese Nationalist government had exercised passport control for entry into ...

Boys can be squirrely when any adult visits a classroom to lecture. That’s why when Ursula Bacon comes in to talk about her Holocaust experience, she tells stories about how she once had a cockroach ...

Toward the end of 1938, in the second year of the full-scale Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), and on the eve of World War II in Europe, there was suddenly a ...