Shanghai Visas

Other Resources

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

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Letter regarding Rudolf Kochmann from case file for Manfred Kochman. National Archives Identifier: 12017258

• Topic Guide: Refuge in Shanghai (1938 – 1953)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The archives of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, Israel.

• http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42374

The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP)

Here are the links to the source archives/collection:

• Administration Files
• Personal Files

YIVO Institute

RG 243 Shanghai Collection, 1924-1950

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From Record Group 84, China, U.S. Embassy, Shanghai: Classified Visa Files, 1946-1951; box 13, file unit: Wiehl, Emil. National Archives Identifier: 12017283

• Collection on life in the Shanghai Ghetto and emigration from Shanghai after World War II
  
  
• Finding aid for this collection

RG 352 Papers of Meir Birman, 1918-1955

• Papers of the Director of the HIAS office in Harbin, and later of the HIAS office in Shanghai

RG 1030 Papers of Sebastian Steiner

• Papers of a resident of the Shanghai Ghetto, 1938-1950s

A number of other YIVO archival collections have material on Jewish refugees in Shanghai. YIVO’s archival collections can be researched at Guide to the YIVO Archives http://www.yivoarchives.org/

International Tracing Service

• https://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html