Journey to Shanghai
Object numberM2017/007:091
TitleJourney to Shanghai
DescriptionThis image depicts Gertrude Carver (nee Elter) and her sister Edith Elter with other Jewish men on board an unknown ship to Shanghai, China in 1939. Unknowingly they had escaped the Holocaust in central Europe. The passage dates from 1939 – see: M2017/007:088. Both were the daughter of Hermann Elter, a Polish-Jew.
See: M2017/007:092
During 1938-9, as other countries borders were closed, German and Austrian Jews were encouraged to immigrate to Shanghai, China as it was the only open port. This was the direct result of the Austrian Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on the 12 March 1938. European Jews travelled to Italy where they would be ferried on liners to Shanghai, for internment into Shanghai's ghetto district.
The name of the ship is unknown; this item comes from a deceased estate collection.
See: M2017/007:092
During 1938-9, as other countries borders were closed, German and Austrian Jews were encouraged to immigrate to Shanghai, China as it was the only open port. This was the direct result of the Austrian Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on the 12 March 1938. European Jews travelled to Italy where they would be ferried on liners to Shanghai, for internment into Shanghai's ghetto district.
The name of the ship is unknown; this item comes from a deceased estate collection.
Production date
Production periodpre-World War II
Subjectrefugee experiences in Shanghai , passenger ships, Anschluss (13 March 1938), victims, refugee experiences in Shanghai
Object namephotographs
Materialpaper
Techniquephotography
Dimensions
- photograph length: 54.00 mm
height: 71.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Len Mahemoff