1945 WWII SHANGHAI JEWISH GHETTO HANUKKA CARD

1945 WWII SHANGHAI JEWISH GHETTO HANUKKA CARD
A greeting card from the Shanghai Jewish ghetto.Measures 6x3 1/4 inches. Contains a 20 cent Chinese bank note in about uncirculated - uncirculated condition. Shanghai was an important safe-haven for Jewish refugees during the Holocaust because it was one of the few places in the world where a visa was not required. Some 23,000 European Jews found shelter there. The Nazis pressured the Japanese army to develop a plan to exterminate Shanghai’s Jewish population but this attempt to bring the Holocaust to China became known to Jewish communal leaders and, with the intercession of the Amshenower Rebbe, the Japanese – who, in any case, had little motive to further antagonize America and the Allies after they had already invaded China – kept putting off the German request until the war ended, thereby keeping the Jews of Shanghai safe.