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Free showing of the documentary, Above the Drowning Sea, the story of Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust to Shanghai. Part of the 2019 Karen Schneider Jewish Film Festival.
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As Hitler’s forces sought to expel the Jews from Europe, no other country would open its doors to the refugees. Their lives at stake, the refugees desperately looked for an escape from the coming Holocaust.
Then, a door opened on the east coast of far-away China, in Shanghai, an “open city” itself in chaos from foreign invasion and civil war. But getting there required a “golden” document to get out of Nazi Europe – a visa from China.
Above the Drowning Sea recounts the courageous ... view more »
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Free Admission
LOCATION
1120 E. Kearsley, Flint, MI 48503
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