In 1933, Nazi Germany began to crazily exclude Jews, and a large group of Jews was forced to move out, at this time, many countries did not expel Jews. There were only Jews who had relatives in Shanghai and those who had lived in Shanghai before chose Shanghai. Among them, there were lawyers, teachers and entrepreneurs. These Jews were lucky because before the outbreak of the Second World War they had search the normal sea route for Shanghai and found the proper jobs in Shanghai.

As the change of international situation, the torture from Nazi to Jews became worse and worse, and as the Austria and Czechoslovakia were occupied by Nazi Germany, more and more Jews in Germany and mid-Europe fled away in succession, on the way, the cash could not be more than 10 pounds except the charges of ship tickets. Once more money found from them, the money would be confiscated. Even if those wealthy and high-class Jewish moneybags, they also suffered the same punishment. Among them, many people got over the frontier and came into Italy, France, and Belgium and bought the long-price ship tickets for shipping across Suez Canal, Bombay and Hong Kong and finally arrived in Shanghai.
When they arrived in Shanghai, they were penniless and had to live in the refugee asylums and each asylum generally lived 30 people or 50 people.

As the wars went on in the world, more and more bad news expressed and more and more European countries occupied by Nazi German, what was worse, in 1940, Italy dig up the hatchet to UK and France. And the wars extended to the northern Africa. The sea lifeline of Jewish refugees was totally cut down. These refugees from Poland, Latvia and Esthonia had to go across Siberian area, China’s northeast area, Korea and Japan, several months later they arrived in Shanghai at last!