Harbor from the Holocaust and the Shanghai Ghetto
When
Nov 10, 2025
6:30 pm- 7:45 pm
Where
Rodef Shalom Congregation
4905 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Join the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh for our annual Kristallnacht commemoration featuring a 20 minute film screening of Harbor from the Holocaust, which tells the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II to the Chinese port city of Shanghai.
This documentary explores the extraordinary relationship of these Jews and their adopted city of Shanghai, even through the bitter years of Japanese occupation 1937-1945 and the Chinese civil war that followed. The film will be followed by a discussion with Iris Samson, co-producer of Harbor from the Holocaust, and Cindy Berg-Vayonis, whose parents and grandparents found refuge in the Shanghai Ghetto and survived the Holocaust.
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s annual Kristallnacht program is generously supported by Edgar Snyder.
Co-sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University Askwith Family Chair of Holocaust, Carnegie Mellon University Jack Buncher Chair in Jewish Studies, Pittsburgh Chinese Cultural Center, University of Pittsburgh Jewish Studies Program, and WQED. The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is a program of the Tree of Life.