How Shanghai saved thousands from the Holocaust

A visitor 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. Photo: 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.

Now 83, he has spent the last two decades spreading the word about how the Chinese city became an unlikely safe haven from Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution".