Jewish refugees Harry Fiedler and Heim Leiter pose next to a potato vendor on a Shanghai street, cir
Jewish refugees Harry Fiedler and Heim Leiter pose next to a potato vendor on a Shanghai street, circa 1945.Harry Fiedler was born in Shanghai, a year-and-a-half after his parents fled from their home in Vienna during WWII. They secured visas from the Chinese embassy and passage on the Italian liner Conte Bianco Mano. Arriving in Shanghai in mid-December, they found temporary shelter at the Embankment building owned by Sir Victor Sassoon. The refugee shelter was administered by the International Committee for European Refugees, also known as the IC or Komor Committee. Subsequently, the family moved to the Hongkew district, where they remained through the period of the Hongkew ghetto (1943-1945). The family emigrated to Canada in October 1949, one week before the Communist takeover of Shanghai. -- source link
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