How Shanghai saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust This photo taken on December 8, 2020 shows a man standing next to a statue of Ho Feng-Shan (also know as He Fengshan), a Chinese diplomat in Vienna who saved thousands of Jews by giving them Chinese visas between 1938 to 1940, in an exhibition hall at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum on the day the museum reopened to the public after an expansion project in Shanghai. January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. STR / AFP. by Peter Stebbings (AFP) .- As an infant Kurt Wick escaped almost certain death in a Nazi concentration camp by taking refuge in Shanghai, a little-known sanctuary for thousands of Jews fleeing the Holocaust.