MENEMSHA FILMS
German Jews fled to Shanghai to escape persecution during World War II. Their story is told in "Shanghai Ghetto."
Gilad Janklowicz, fitness consultant and producer of the syndicated TV workout series "Bodies in Motion," will host a reception for the film "Shanghai Ghetto" at the Art House at Restaurant Row Theaters from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Reception host
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The film is directed and produced by his sister, Dana Janklowicz-Mann, and her husband, Amir Mann, of Los Angeles.
Janklowicz's father, Harold, was raised in Shanghai, one of thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe who were allowed to emigrate to the Chinese colony in 1939. His story is one of several moving accounts of survival depicted among harsh conditions in the war-torn Shanghai of the 1940s, when thousands of German Jews, fearing for their lives under Nazi rule and unable to secure entrance visas to other countries, found refuge in the Japanese-occupied city.
Destitute, hungry and thrust into a strange environment, they made the best of their situation as they waited to return to Europe. Their story is told through interviews with several of the men and women who grew up in the Shanghai ghetto, including Harold, whose dinner-table reminiscences sparked the genesis of the film.
The film is narrated by Academy Award winner Martin Landau.
Admission for the film is $7.75. The reception is free with your ticket.
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