An Introduction to Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum

In 2007, the government of Hongkou District of Shanghai renovated the former Ohel Moshe Synagogue and turned the building into Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is located at 62 Changyang Road (formerly called Ward Road) and composed of the former synagogue, two standalone exhibition halls and a courtyard. The Museum
represents the life of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai and related historical events through films, objects, pictures, sculptures and paintings.
The Museum is intended to remember this special history, and has conducted various commemorative events with delegations from the USA, Austria, Germany, Israel, Hungary and Poland.
The Ohel Moshe Synagogue had been the center of the Jewish community as the location of religious services and life rituals. Now, Jews in Shanghai are still having their wedding and bar mitzvah ceremonies there.
In the neighborhood of the Museum, there are quite a few former Jewish residences. For instance, you can find the former residence of Michael Blumenthal, former US Treasury Secretary and now curator of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, a small garret at 59 Zhoushan Road. You can also walk around the former ghetto, and find the former office of the JDC in Shanghai, and the Mascot Roof Garden, where Jewish artists used to give concerts during the 1930s and 1940s.
Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is administered by several government officials, while most visitor guides and other workers are volunteers from colleges and the surrounding neighborhoods.
They are trying to learn more about this special history and at the same time share and communicate the history with visitors across the world.