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CENTAUR PRIZE: BEST DOCUMENTARY Message to Man Film Festival (1999)
In the years between 1938 to 1941 nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai, China where most would spend almost a decade in exile. The emigration to Shanghai was, for most refugees, a "last resort" to find a safe have at a time when borders around Europe were closed to the desperate Jews of Europe.
The little-known story of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai is presented through the recollections of four former refugees -Fred Fields, Ernest Heppner, Illo Heppner, and Siegmar Simon- and a thorough collage of evocative materials: personal and published writings by refugees, relief reports, secret documents, rare home movies, photographs, newsreels, and propaganda films.
This remarkable archival material reveals a lost world when Shanghai was the Far East's most illustrious city. Extraordinary images of refugees and uncommon views of Chinese life create a compelling vantage point for understanding this story of survival.
- The Asian Wall Street Journal, April 9, 1999
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