newspapers on February 18, 1943
I. Due to military necessity, places of residence and business of stateless refugees in the Shanghai area shall hereafter be restricted to the under mentioned area in the International Settlement. East of the line connecting Chaoufong Road, Muirhead Road and Dent Road; West of Yangtzepoo Creek; North of the line connecting East Seward Road and Wayside Road; and South of the boundary of the International Settlemen
PROCLAMATION CONCERNING RESTRICTION OF RESIDENCE
AND BUSINESS OF STATELESS REFUGEES
II. The stateless refugees a present residing and/or carrying on business in the district other than the above area shall remove their places of residences and/or business into the area designated above by May 18, 194
Permission must be obtained from the Japanese authorities for the transfer, sale purchase or lease of rooms, houses, shops or other establishments, which are situated outside the designated area and now being occupied or used by stateless refugees.
III. Persons other than stateless refugees shall not remove into the area mentioned in Article I without permission of the Japanese authorities.
IV. Persons who violate the PROCLAMATION or obstruct its reenforcement
shall be liable to severe punishment.
Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Army in the
Shanghai Area
Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the
Shanghai Area
February 18, 1943"
A newspaper article which appeared at the same time defined the term
"stateless Refugees" as those refugees who ".......arrived in Shanghai since
1937 from Germany (including former Austria, Czecho-slovakia), Hungary,
former Poland, Latvia, and Estonia, etc and have no nationality at present."
Copied from a book: "Japanese, Nazis and Jews" by David Kranzler. It was
originally researched as a doctoral dissertation by him while at Yeshiva
University. It probably was one of the earliest works on this subject
published in 1976.
Here are some of the books that have been published in recent years about
the Shanghai Jews, mainly by Shanghai Jews:
Ernest Heppne Shanghai Refuge (autobiography)
Betty Grebenschikoff Once My Name was Sara
Evelyn Pike Rubin Ghetto Shanghai
James R. Ross Escape to Shanghai
(Biography)
David Kranzler Japanese, Nazis and Jews (Historical Research)
Claudia Cornwall A Letter from Viuenna (autobiography)
Rabbi Marvin Tokayer The Fugu Plan (Account of the Mir Yeshiva's travels from Poland to Shanghai via Lithuania and Kobe)
Rena Krasno Stranger Always (autobiography)
Pan Guang The Jews in Shanghai (Pictorial History)
Walter H. Silberstein, whs@mail.med.upenn.edu<br>
Sat, 25 Oct 1997
