A Round Up of Recent Projects
The Rauh Jewish Archives is dedicated to stories about Jewish history in Western Pennsylvania. But we also like to let you know about local historians whose research into Jewish history takes them far from this region.
For several years, David Rosenberg has been telling the story of the Jewish community of Amiens, a city in northern France. His research started with a collection of identification cards found in French government archives in 2017. The cards identify the Jewish residents of the city, a requirement of the German occupation never before demanded of these French citizens.

His exhibit "Who is a Jew? Amiens, France, 1940-45" premiered at Temple Emanuel of the South Hills in March 2018 and has subsequently appeared elsewhere in the United States and France, including the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.

His new website Jews of the Somme presents all the materials from the exhibit, allowing for deliberate and in-depth examination.

IMAGE: Marc Adler identification card, Archives nationales de France (Pierrefitte-sur-Seine), AJ 38 5787
The rush to leave Nazi-occupied Europe was generally a flight west and south to the Americas and Israel.

But nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees fled east, landing in Shanghai, China.

The new documentary "Harbor from the Holocaust" tells the story of the Jewish community of Shanghai through the Japanese occupation and the Chinese civil war that followed.

The documentary was produced by longtime Pittsburgh journalist Iris Samson. WQED is holding a virtual preview on Sept. 3 at 7 p.m., followed by the premiere on WQED-TV on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 10 p.m.
The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives was founded on November 1, 1988 to collect, preserve, and make accessible the documentary history of Jews and Jewish communities of Western Pennsylvania. You can help the RJHPA continue its work by making a donation that will directly support the work being done in Western Pa.
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