Shanghai Collection

Title: Shanghai Collection

Inclusive Dates: 1924 - 1950

ID: RG 243

Extent Information

3'4"; 6 5"lgl; 2 3"lgl; 1 3"ovr; 5 map folders

Arrangement

Organization: Boxes are arranged in folder numerical sequence

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in the following Series: I) Shanghai ghetto (1943-1945; II) communal organizations and activities (1927-1948); III) migration (1930-1941); IV) newspapers (1935-1948); V) papers of individuals, personal narratives and memoirs (1924-1950); VI) YIVO and other institutions (1945-1948); VII) posters and broadsides (1934-1947).

Creators

Shanghai Collection

Administrative/Biographical History

Accumulated by the YIVO Committee in Shanghai from 1946 to 1948 partly in preparation for the exhibition "Jewish Life in Shanghai" held at the YIVO, N.Y. in 1948-1949. The exhibition related primarily to the Shanghai Ghetto. The Shanghai Ghetto was established by Japanese occupying forces in 1943. Among its residents were the Jews who had settled in China at the turn-of-the-century as well as Eastern European Jewish refugees who had fled to China to escape Nazi oppression. The ghetto was in existence until the departure of the Japanese forces in 1945.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

China
Communal Welfare Organizations
Film and Cinema
Ghettos, Holocaust
Holocaust and Aftermath
Jewish Labor Bund
Press, Jewish
Rabbis
Social Welfare
Theater
Zionism

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Collection

Finding Aid Information

English, 23 pp

Administrative Information

Access Notes: YIVO Archives collections are open to researchers only by appointment with an archivist. To inquire about papers and records, write to Chief Archivist, archives@yivo.cjh.org. To inquire about photographs and films, write to Photo and Film Archivist at Photofilm@yivo.cjh.org. To inquire about sound recordings, write to Sound Archivist, lsklamberg@yivo.cjh.org. For art works and artifacts, write to Chief Archivist at archives@yivo.cjh.org.

Restrictions: The collection is open to researchers by appointment with the Chief Archivist. For information, write to Chief Archivist, archives@yivo.cjh.org.

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Other Formats: MK 506.1-.5

Description: The collection relates to life in the ghetto and includes materials on: founding of the ghetto; relief groups such as JDC, ORT, HIAS, and SACRA (Shanghai Ashkenazic Collaborating Relief Association); political organizations such as Zionist groups, the Bund; the rabbinate; the sick and benevolent society; kitchen fund; commercial establishments; religious schools , secular schools; professional associations; art, theater and music activities; Jewish press; emigration from Shanghai after World War II. There are also manuscript histories of the Shanghai Ghetto.