Shanghai Ghetto 22 years old

In 1939, the last hope for thousands of Jews lay in the last place on Earth the Nazis would look.

SHANGHAI GHETTO recalls the strange-but-true story of thousands of European Jews who were shut out of country after country while trying to escape Nazi persecution in the late 1930s. Left without options or entrance visas, a beacon of hope materialized for them on the other side of the world, and in the unlikeliest of places, Japanese-controlled Shanghai. Fleeing for their lives, these Jewish refugees journeyed to form a settlement in the exotic city, penniless and unprepared for their new life in the Far East. At the turn of the new millennium, filmmakers Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amire Mann boldly snuck into China with two survivors and a digital camera to shoot at the site of the original Shanghai Ghetto, unchanged since WWII.

Credits

Shanghai Ghetto Cast

Name Character
Martin Landau He was 73, 89 years old when he died as Narrator

Shanghai Ghetto Crew

Name Department
Dana Janklowicz-Mann as Director. Directing
Shanghai Ghetto poster
Shanghai Ghetto (22 years)

In 1939, the last hope for thousands of Jews lay in the last place on Earth the Nazis would look.

  • Release day: Thursday, February 28, 2002
  • Runtime: 95 minutes