1st Saturday Lecture - On the last ship from China

In 1957, the last of the Russian Jews that had numbered about 20,000 at the end of the Second World War left China heading west to Australia, Canada, Israel, South America and Russia.  Among them was the Shlau family: David and Bela Rogovina Shlau, with their children, Jackie (16) Alan (14) and Marina (12).  They and several families had been waiting for an exit visa.  After Singapore’s Chief Minister, the Sephardic Jew David Marshall met Zhou En-lai, Chairman, Chinese Communist Party, were the visas granted in 1956. 

In this talk, Marina will describe life in China in the 1950’s: the schools, remaining and departed friends, gatherings at home, the Jewish and Soviet clubs, standing in line for food, participating in Sino Soviet celebrations, clandestinely listening to forbidden radio news; all under the cloud of worrying about what the future would bring.

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