Milan's violin

Author: He Ning
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: During the Holocaust, when Hitler's Nazis carried out a frenzied racial extermination of Jews during World War II, Shanghai was the only port in the world where Jewish refugees could land without visas. From 1934 to 1940, Shanghai accommodated over 30,000 Jewish refugees fleeing from Europe. At that time, China was in the midst of a hard-fought Anti-Japanese War, but with the rescue of the Shanghai Jewish community and the Chinese people, tens of thousands of Jewish refugees survived in Shanghai and built their new lives. After the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1942, Japan joined the Axis powers of Germany and Italy. In the summer of 1943, the Japanese invaders established a Jewish refugee ghetto in the impoverished Hongkou District of Shanghai, implementing surveillance over the Jewish people. These were the most difficult and suffering days for Jewish refugees in East Asia. The novel tells the touching story of the struggles against Japanese Fascism experienced by the Chinese and Jewish people during this historical period, sharing life and fate, and recreates the unforgettable years of Jewish refugees in East Asia.