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“The Wall of Shanghai List”unveiled
Time：2014-09-09

A memorial wasunveiled on the 3rd of September at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum to acknowledge the 13,732 people who fled Europe to escape persecution by the Nazis during WorldWar II.


The structurecomprises a statue of six Jewish people standing beside a 37-meter-long, 2.5-meter-high copper wall, on which has been etched the names of all theJewish people known to have taken shelter in Shanghai.


The names were collected by the museum with great help from the surviving refugee Sonja Muhlberger and the Israeli consulate in Shanghai. Most of the refugees hailed from Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania.