Sponsor Message Shanghai would go on to harbor nearly 20,000 Jewish evacuees from Europe before and during World War II. But life there was not always pretty. Japan had invaded China earlier in ...

But the story of the estimated 20,000 Jews who found sanctuary in Shanghai, China, is lesser known and it’s the subject of the PBS documentary “Harbor From the Holocaust,” premiering Sept.

Japanese-controlled Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor is an ideal locale for a tale of intrigue, which is why so many movies have been set there. "Shanghai" is hardly the best of them ...