Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is located at the intersection of Changyang Road and Zhoushan Road in Hongkou District. Established in 2007, it was built around the former site of the Ohel Moshe Synagogue, one of the activity centers for Jewish people in Shanghai at that time. It completed its expansion in November 2020. The new museum covers an area of approximately 4,000 square meters, including the former site of the Ohel Moshe Synagogue and the original residential buildings to its west and south, preserving their original architectural style. To date, about 1,000 pieces (sets) of historical materials have been collected here. Through new exhibition technologies such as scene restoration and interactive multimedia, the new museum authentically recreates the warm details of the interactions, mutual assistance in times of trouble, and shared efforts to overcome difficulties between Jewish refugees and the Chinese people, vividly reproducing the history of European Jews seeking refuge in Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s. The museum itself is also a historical site in China that reflects the lives of Jewish refugees in China during World War II. In the future, the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum will continue to tell this unique Chinese story of the selfless acceptance of Jewish refugees by the people of Shanghai to visitors from China and abroad, comprehensively carrying this special global historical memory.