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22 THE TO URO LAWYER FALL 201 5 From June 1-3 2015 Touro Law Center sponsored an international conference focusing on those who survived the Shoah by escaping to Shanghai China. The conference featured presentations by a number of former refugees leading Sino-Judaic scholars and Manli Ho the daughter of the Chinese diplomat Dr. Feng-Shan Ho. Dr. Ho gave out thousands of visa to families in Vienna Austria while he was the Chinese ambassador to Vienna prior to World War II. He made it clear to Jews that flight was their best option for security and survival. As an important part of the story the conference explored the Jewish community in China and Shanghai before World War II. Both Baghdadi Jews and Russian Jews who initially settled in Harbin were instrumental in many ways in helping the new European Jews settle in Shanghai until the end of the war. Four different speakers at the conference addressed various aspects of the experience of Russian Jews in Harbin and Shanghai while Dr. Maisie Meyer the leading scholar on the subject of the Baghdadi Jews who came to Shanghai in the 19th century and subsequently prospered spoke on the subject. More than 120 attendees participated in the three-day event which drew significant media attention from China. There were literally dozens of video cameras still cameras and reporters at the opening reception. Touro Law faculty staff alumni board members and friends were present. The conference had significance on many levels this year is the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. The Jews who escaped Nazi occupation by way of Shanghai then one of the only open ports open to Jewish immigrants are referred to as Shanghailanders. For those still alive this was an opportunity to see Shanghai perhaps for the last time to visit the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum see the Hongkou District where they lived and reconnect with Shanghailanders who attended the conference from the United States and Australia. Scholars came from the United States England and other parts of China to participate. The highlight of the conference was the participation and attendance of a number of people who were children at the time and who shared their memories of life in Shanghai their parents struggle to flee Europe and their journey to places around the world after the end of the War. A few of the speakers had written books about their survival stories and those were available to attendees. One of the speakers