Judith Schaffer Lavitt: Winnipeg Shanghai Connection

Miriam Feierstein Dept: When no other country was willing to help during the Holocaust, a Chinese diplomat in Vienna rescued thousands of Jews, including two Winnipeg women, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "The only country in the world that would accept us without a passport was China," survivor Judith Schaffer Lavitt said at Wednesday's opening of the exhibit, Winnipeg Shanghai Connection II and boris Minkevich / Miriam Feierstein, who escaped the Holocaust, and her son Max stand in front of part of the exhibit Winnipeg Shanghai Connection II. Their story about finding refuge in Shanghai and pieces of their past are on display this month at the Millennium Library. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.