ocr: Starting in August 1938,the city of Shanghai in China, which was under the joint international control of several powers, became a central destination for the emigration of Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. Until May 1939 no visa or other documents were needed in order to emigrate to the apanese zone of Shanghai.17,000 refugees from Germany andAustria, most of them Jews, and another 1,000 Jews from Poland,settled there in this period.
