Here are 2 books on Jewish refugees finding sanctuary in Shanghai during WW 2.
Shanghai Sanctuary by Gao Bei [ 2013] narrates that when Europe closed its borders to German and Austrian Jews from 1938 to 1941 , Shanghai became the last haven for Jewish refugees. 20, 000 fled there, and most survived the war.
Thousands of Jews in Austria and Germany tried to stay alive and flee their homelands just prior to World War 2.
The only country willing to accept them without restriction was China. The US refused to increase its quota to admit more Jews.
Vienna’s Chinese Consul General Ho Feng Shan since spring 1937 saw the harm to the Jews and granted thousands of Jews visas to Shanghai at great risk to his own safety.
Years later, he said, ” On seeing the Jews doomed, it was only natural to feel deep compassion, and from a humanitarian standpoint, to be impelled to help them.”
[ p 41, 42, 56 and 291 The Box with the Sunflower Clasp A Jewish Family’s Flight to Wartime, 2024 published, by Rachel Meller]
Her story continues with a description of their lives in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded.
Shanghai Sanctuary by Gao Bei, 2013, tells the full story on China and Japanese policy toward the Jewish refugees during World War II .
This is an interesting historical record not well- known in the West or the US nowadays. Not much is written by Western historians on this topic.