Xiahai Temple is a quiet, traditional structure with elegant flying eaves and intricate woodwork, located here in the Hongkou District. Founded during the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, it originally served as a place for local…
Hongkou Jewish Ghetto Walk
This historic walk through the former Hongkou Jewish Ghetto reveals the moving story of WWII European refugees who found sanctuary in Shanghai. You will visit the preserved residential lanes, historic community spaces, and memorial parks that hosted a remarkable era of cultural co-existence.
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1. Xiahai Temple
2. Zhoushan Road
Zhoushan Road is defined by its rows of three-story brick homes, many built in the nineteen-twenties with Dutch gables and dark, contrasting brickwork. These modest buildings sit at the center of what was once known as the Restricted…
3. Baima Coffee
Baima Coffee in the Hongkou district occupies a building that served as a refuge during the Second World War. Known historically as the White Horse Cafe, the original establishment was a gathering place for Jewish refugees who fled to…
4. Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is marked by the three-story Ohel Moshe Synagogue, a building with grey walls accented by horizontal rows of red bricks. Established in two thousand seven, the museum sits within the Tilanqiao area of…
5. Site of the American Jewish Joint Succour Committee （JDC）
This building on Huoshan Road, constructed in nineteen ten, marks the site where the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee operated its Shanghai office during the Second World War. Thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi…
6. Huoshan Park
Huoshan Park is a small, quiet patch of greenery marked by a stone monument inscribed in Chinese, English, and Hebrew. Originally opened in nineteen seventeen as Studley Park, this space became a vital gathering point for thousands of…