historicity-was-already-taken:One of the earliest shelters set up for the Jewish refugees. Image cou
historicity-was-already-taken:One of the earliest shelters set up for the Jewish refugees. Image courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot/The Museum of the Jewish People.The earliest arrivals were placed on the first floor of Sir Victor Sassoon’s Embankment Building, a luxury office building on the Bund. In the Embankment Building, tiny rooms were filled with wooden cots, and thirty to forty bunk beds pushed together in each of the floor’s small offices. Clothing and blankets hung off the sides of the beds in the unfurnished rooms.Ernest Heppner, who stayed there with his mother, recalled that “Nothing demonstrated more clearly the drastic change that had taken place in our lives than the sight of us dressed in our good, heavy European clothes…waiting in line with tin pots in hand for our next meal.”Many were afraid to even leave the Building.All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis –> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV....#history #jewishhistory #worldwarii #secondworldwar #holocaust #holocausthistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #shanghai #china #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigramhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BtjmKsyFNGr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13tykyw5kqnyi -- source link