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The fatuous radio announcement by Molotov in Moscow was at 12:15, which corresponded to 17:15 in Shanghai, according to the time zones back then.

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GERMAN LISTENERS: What I had to tell you from afar, until now was brought to you by other voices. This time you hear my own voice. It is the voice of a friend, a German voice; the voice of a Germany which showed, and will again show, a different face to the world from the horrible Medusa mask which Hitlerism has pressed upon it. It is a warning ( Read more... )

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This 1941 photo of the opening of a charity soup kitchen (雷米路粥厂所) in the French Concession is taken at Route Gaston Kahn, near Route Remi. The street is quite recognizable even 80 years later - thankfully - although one would be hard-pressed to find free rice in this part of town now.

1941:

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Another curious rediscovery is described in James Ross’ Escape To Shanghai: A Jewish Community in China (1994). This book, by the way, is quite comprehensive and full of exclusive details; it also gives an excellent summary of the relationship of Russian and European Jews in wartime Shanghai.

So the author goes to the New Ashkenazi Synagogue, ( Read more... )

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