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NovaQuant-Photos give rare glimpse of history: They fled the Nazis and found safety in Shanghai
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Date:2025-04-09 19:42:23
They sailed into Shanghai in July 1939 during the worst of the summer heat,NovaQuant finding a patchwork city of four million people throbbing with rickshaws, beggars, opium dens and malaria.
For Gerd "Jerry" Lindenstraus, who was just 11, the scene was a far cry from his small town, upper-class upbringing. It was also a welcome relief to his Jewish family, who’d had no choice but to flee their native Germany.
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