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Professor Emeritus Irene Eber

Season 1 Episode 1 | 18m 36s

Professor Emeritus Irene Eber of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem was an early advisor to the documentary. Author of "Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City," Eber’s own story is that of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who escaped and hid for two years in a chicken coop belonging to a Polish family.

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Hear the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai.
Hear the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai.
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Composed by Hiao-Tsiun Ma and played by his son, Yo-Yo Ma.
Reflections on creating the textured musical score for “Harbor from the Holocaust."
"Méiguì méiguì wǒ ài nǐ" is a song in Mandarin composed by Chen Gexin.
Explore how his boyhood in Shanghai inspired now-hollywood producer Mike Medavoy.
Heather Klein created a one-woman operatic program to honor her grandmother Rosa Ginsberg.
Bert Reiner’s middle-class family was forced to abandon life in Germany for Shanghai.
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