Shanghai Jewish Heritage 1 Day Tour

Our guide will pick you up at your hotel and then your tour will be get started from Ohel Moishe Synagogue. The Ohel Moishe Synagogue (Ohel Moishe) played a central role in the lives of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during WWII. Although the synagogue is no longer fully in use, a section of it has been given over to house the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.

Then we will proceed to visit Huoshan Park. Huoshan Park is located in the southeast of Hongkou District in Shanghai. The park covers 3,700 square meters with green trees and flowers. Huohan Park remains the style of the old Jewish refuge. Inside this garden, there sits the only memorial monument which writes the gratitude for Shanghai and Chinese people for taking Jewish refugees during the WWII.

Zhoushan Road will be the next destination to visit. The buildings along the Zhoushan Road were built furing the late 1920s. These buildings are of European styles and they were where Jewish refugees lived in great numbers during the Second World War. Now this area has become a commercial center with an exotic atmosphere, known as "Little Vienna"

Then we will head to see Ohel Rachel Synagogue. Ohel Rachel Synagogue, located on No. 500 Shaanxi North Road, is the venue of former Shanghai Jewish Diaspora associations Laxi Er synagogue. It is also the earliest synagogue built in Shanghai, and the largest synagogue of the Far East regions.

Afterwards, our guide will bring you to visit Shanghai Ghetto. The Shanghai ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, to which about 20,000 Jewish refugees were relocated by the Japanese-issued Proclamation Concerning Restriction of Residence and Business of Stateless Refugees after having fled from German-occupied Europe before and during World War II.

At last, our guide will bring you back to your hotel to end this tour.