Just like many other Jews living in Europe, Imas’ father endured a lot of cruelty during World War II. To escape the Nazi regime, he had to leave his homeland. Worse still, the Évian Conference, which was convened in France in 1938 to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, had little impact on the plight of the refugees.During this unprecedented tragedy, some six million Jews were killed just because of who they were. While other countries shut their doors to the refugees, China welcomed them.At least 500 Jewish babies were born in Shanghai. Eighty-year-old Sonja Mühlberger was among them, too.“My mother was1) with me. And they came from Germany to Shanghai in April 1939.”“And then they would travel all the way here to Shanghai. This trip will take about 29 to 30 days. And it’s about a month.”About 20,000 Jewish 2)fled to Shanghai between 1933 and 1941. At that time, Japanese 3) _____ occupied parts of Shanghai. After the 4) _______ of the Pacific War, the Japanese invaders set up a ghetto. They forced tens of thousands of Jews to live in a stateless refugee-restricted 5) ________, which is where today’s Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is located.“The Chinese were also in that designated area in this overcrowded place in that surrounding. So we had no problems with them.”The fate of the Jewish refugees later became closely intertwined with that of their Chinese counterparts in Shanghai. In 1945, when the world won its war against Fascism, the Jewish refugees in Shanghai started to seek information about their families back in Europe. But with only sad news coming, the Jews in Shanghai soon realized that leaving their homeland, although heartrending, might have been the best decision they had ever made.To help 6)______ their history, the Hongkou District Government opened the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in 2007 in a renovated Moshe Synagogue inside a former Jewish residential complex.In September 2014, a 7) ______ wall with the names of 13,732 Jewish refugees was erected at the museum. Mühlberger helped collect a 8) _______ amount of them.“There are so many people. They’re trying to find their 9____. I really like to find out that how many people really have been or arrived in Shanghai as refugees, so this is still in my mind.”As an offspring of the 10_______ history between China and the Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai, Imas donated a statue titled “Standing Together” and penned a poem describing how grateful she is to the Chinese people and nation.
Please watch the video and fill in the blanks.This is the photo of Sara Imas and her father. Just like many other Jews living in Europe, Imas’ father endured a lot of cruelty during World War II. To escape the Nazi regime, he had to leave his homeland. Worse still, the Évian Conference, which was convened in France in 1938 to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany, had little impact on the plight of the refugees.During this unprecedented tragedy, some six million Jews were killed just because of who they were. While other countries shut their doors to the refugees, China welcomed them.At least 500 Jewish babies were born in Shanghai. Eighty-year-old Sonja Mühlberger was among them, too.“My mother was1) with me. And they came from Germany to Shanghai in April 1939.”“And then they would travel all the way here to Shanghai. This trip will take about 29 to 30 days. And it’s about a month.”About 20,000 Jewish 2)fled to Shanghai between 1933 and 1941. At that time, Japanese 3) _____ occupied parts of Shanghai. After the 4) _______ of the Pacific War, the Japanese invaders set up a ghetto. They forced tens of thousands of Jews to live in a stateless refugee-restricted 5) ________, which is where today’s Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is located.“The Chinese were also in that designated area in this overcrowded place in that surrounding. So we had no problems with them.”The fate of the Jewish refugees later became closely intertwined with that of their Chinese counterparts in Shanghai. In 1945, when the world won its war against Fascism, the Jewish refugees in Shanghai started to seek information about their families back in Europe. But with only sad news coming, the Jews in Shanghai soon realized that leaving their homeland, although heartrending, might have been the best decision they had ever made.To help 6)______ their history, the Hongkou District Government opened the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum in 2007 in a renovated Moshe Synagogue inside a former Jewish residential complex.In September 2014, a 7) ______ wall with the names of 13,732 Jewish refugees was erected at the museum. Mühlberger helped collect a 8) _______ amount of them.“There are so many people. They’re trying to find their 9____. I really like to find out that how many people really have been or arrived in Shanghai as refugees, so this is still in my mind.”As an offspring of the 10_______ history between China and the Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai, Imas donated a statue titled “Standing Together” and penned a poem describing how grateful she is to the Chinese people and nation.