Someone from my town was rescued from the Holocaust by escaping to Shanghai as a child. She said, "Life was really tough in Shanghai. I thought I was in hell. But when i realized what happened to those who stayed in Europe, I realized I had been in heaven." Thank you Feng-Shan Ho
@ryandelong2759 Thatz very rude and disrespectful to people who saved the Jews in time of need during the Nazi Holocaust. He saved thousands of people, show some respect.
@@unclescipio3136 this got me interested, and i googled A photo at Temple Emanu-el shows Austrian Jews who turned to the Chinese consulate in Vienna. It looks like there are 30 people lining up. That's for a day. Plus, I read that each guy would request and take more than 5 visas for their familly. Lets say he took weekends off: 30 x 260 = 7800 for a year. He could have saved anything from 8000 to 20000 jews per year, at least. And he was there for two years. God knows how many he saved.
@@enkii82 the funny thing is china at the time is probably the only consulate that can issue those visa. Shanghai was in a entanglement with international powers, making it a visa free port, you dont need traveling documentss to go there.
When I was a student in an Australian University, my lecturer who was then Dr Walter Ivantsoff told me, “Do you know I’m a Chinese? I consider myself Chinese because we were rescued by China and we escaped via China and finally ended up in Australia. “ Wished I had asked him more of his story as he was keen to share it. He told me he would always be grateful to china for allowing his family entry and to stay there. He has since departed this chaotic world.
Yes he issued a lot visas to Jewish people. So they could go to Shanghai, now Shanghai has a Jewish museum that tells history. If you go to Shanghai, you can visit the museum.
@@jonwijaya8539we should not let the chaos of today obscure the past. There're lessons to be learned from history, a shame that today's power reject to see them...
Please allow me to express my most sincere tribute to Mr. Ho for his contributions to the Jewish community and to humanity. It is a profound regret that we will never know exactly how many people he saved during those times-thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands? Mr. Ho himself never thought to keep track of these details. As his daughter has mentioned, I am not at all surprised by his deeds, for he was indeed a man of integrity. It is important to acknowledge that the story of the Jewish people did not end upon their arrival in Shanghai. There, they received protection from more benevolent souls; life in Shanghai might have been harsh, but those kind-hearted individuals did everything within their power to assist the Jewish people.
This is a GREAT video! I am Jewish and I never heard of this wonderful man. I'm sending the link to your video to all of my family members. THANK YOU for the time and effort you put out to illuminate this true hero!
Dont believe everything you hear from Chlna. Their school text books says China played the main role in victiorious i outcome of the allies in the WW2. They celebrate VJ day every year as thier victory over the Axis power
I volunteered as an English interpreter for the Jewish museum in shanghai one summer during college there. I knew Ho’s story and was deeply moved. I recently learned my Russian-Jewish-Australian colleague’s family sought refuge in China before moving to Australia. His legacy lives on.
I'd also recommend looking up Chiune Sampo Sugihara. He was a Christian. A Japanese diplomate who was stationed in Lithuania. Going against his diplomatic orders, he wrote transit visas for thousands of jews to travel through Japan to reach another country. He was recalled to Japan, and as the train pulled out of the station - he threw his blank forms and his stamp to the jews on the platform. He lost his position, and lived quietly. No one knew what he had done, until the Israeli Ambassador to Japan showed up at his funeral.
What a great story! I never heard of Feng-Shan Ho before. It does remind me of the story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler." He saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews also by issuing passports. He too was honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
@@oh_k8 Sugihara was dismissed from the Japanese foreign service. But I guess you know more than his wife since she was merely an eye witness to evens.
Wow… just wow… what a beautiful human being. Humanity can be lacking at times as this world can be very dark. These incredible brave souls that pop up from time to time produce enough light to radiate for future generations to live in peace or at the very least the hope for peace. Long live Feng-Shan Ho!
May his memory be a blessing : thank you Mr Feng-Shan Ho. Thank you _Unpacked_ for giving him the recognition he deserved, and kudos for his daughter's dedication to honour her father's memory.
I wish I could hear about Feng-Shan Ho before. His story brings back hope in the human nature. My father freed a transit camp near Nuremberg. Hundreds of corpses were overleft. He had a post traumatic syndrom the rest of his life.
Hopefully, a future episode will cover Manuel Quezon, given that he played a huge role in saving over a thousand Jews from the Holocaust by welcoming them to the Philippines (my home country).
There is a gigantic difference between a Chinese diplomat who although in real danger also enjoyed far more safety with a diplomatic status with most likely the worst fate he would have received was being deported back to China which is a place he could go at any time and indeed was back in China by 1940 and Schindler who was a German and saved Jewish lives all the way to the end of the war and the defeat of the germans in 1944 who would only have recieved the worst kind of death if found out. Feng-Shan Ho was a moral human being and a great man and saved many lives by helping them to flee before the holocaust but not anywhere near a comparison to Schindler in what was accomplished as he KEPT Jews alive at the height of the holocaust under the regime that was in the full force of it's extermination and in it's most darkest days. I am eternally grateful for them both.
@@Flintlockon He would've been arrested by the SS though, not just deported back to China. China was weak at the time & in good relations with Germany, which they couldn't afford to damage.
@@dyawrYour absolutely right but Germany in 1940 is not Germany of 1944 and the SS would only have deported him at that time and would under no curcumstance execute a foreign diplomat for signing visa's. They would have declared him persona non grata and sent him back and it may have soured relations with China maybe but Mr Ho was not under anything like the danger Schindler was in 1944 dealing with the SS directly every day. Mr Ho is a hero and stands with the finest of human beings and many diplomats did similar things for the same noble cause but Schindler kept Jews alive all the way through the war and holocaust while they were in the SS clutch the entire time. I mean it when i say i am grateful for them both
@@Flintlockon I would say the SS was very strong & confident at the beginning of the war, no? Between 1938-1940 it could've been very dangerous if they wanted to make an example out of him. _"At first, diplomats posted in Germany were spared and even wooed by Hermann Goering, but their situation started deteriorating in 1935. Their sources of information dried up. They knew their German employees were spying on them and sometimes feared for their lives._ _André François-Poncet preferred meeting his British and American counterparts in the Tiergarten, the large park in Berlin. Germany’s alliances in the Axis increasingly isolated Western diplomats."_ - from "Diplomats facing the Shoah", article
People like Feng-Shan Ho, Oskar Schindler, Manuel L. Quezon, Abdol Hossein Sardari, Chiune Sugihara, Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg, and others deserve to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for their Compassion, heroism, and bravery
Thank you for this incredible information. This gentleman was incredibly brave and must have had a stalwart personal code in order to maintain his intended mission through such all-encompassing pressure. Thank you for honoring his achievements.
Thank you for including this man’s name in Chinese characters. That is such an important detail that unfortunately few people not conversant with the Chinese languages even know that they do not know…too often, to their own detriment as seekers of knowledge. Well done.
China and Chinese will never forget anyone that had helped them during WW2. They restored his residential house in Nanjing and built a memorial for him.
He's just an arms dealer tho. He turned against the Japanese not because he wanted to save the Chinese, but because he couldn't stand to see his business ruined by the Japanese army. He was only taking China's side for his own benefit, since his position in China would be jeopardized if Japan and Germany were to form an alliance. To say that he fought to save the Chinese from the Japanese sounds pretty much like propaganda to be honest. And his testimony was so full of contradictions that it was not even adopted at trial.
@@user-qm7jwnot true, the japanese fully occupied the territory, there is nothing the german government or the chinese government can do that can protect him. He absolutely have to risk his life to save the chinese refugee. Shindlers testimony was also full of holes, but its the testimony of the those he saved that counts the most. The irony was the chinese refugee were saved by a giant nazi flag.
According to his daughter He Manli, Mr. He came from a poor family since he was a child. He received help from the Lutheran Church before he could continue his studies and eventually received a doctorate in economics from the University of Munich in Germany. After retiring, he settled in San Francisco, USA. In addition to writing, he was enthusiastic about church work. He died in 1997 at the age of 96.
Thank you so much for this! It's very fascinating. Can you please run a clip like this on Aristedes de Sousa Mendez? Extremely similar story on a Portuguese diplomat working in France. He personally helped rescue my grandfather and my wife's great grandfather, just days apart from each other.
I had tears in my eyes. He was a true humanitarian, a true hero. May he never be forgotten and people of all nations know of his Christ-like compassionate actions. His heart was in the right place. May his soul rest in peace and his descendants be blessed
@@oh_k8 You seem to have found the cloud in the silver lining. Assuming you’re correct, is your point that he should have let European Jews die because American Jews a couple generations before discouraged immigration on the other side of the planet? So, by your logic since Chairman Mao’s great leap forward caused the death of 30 million Chinese in the 1950s, then the American Jews were right to exclude the Chinese in the 1880s in the Chinese Exclusion Act? I get it now. Thanks.
Reminds me of the Japanese ambassador to Lithuania , Chiune Sugihara, during world war II, who wrote many hundreds of visas for the Jewish people living there to escape the Nazis.
There was a Dutch diplomat, Jan Zwartendijk, in Lithuania at the same time who did the same thing. He was reprimanded, of course, and it took quite some time for him to be exonerated, posthumously.
@@har3036 Actually, the Chiune Sugihara and Jan Zwartendijk story should really be told together. They were the one-two that allowed the Lithuania Jews to leave for safer areas. Zwartendijk issued Curacao "visas" that would not have allowed the Jews to leave for Curacao but enabled Sugihara the excuse to issue Japanese transit visas that allowed them to leave. Both did so at great personal risk and later career loss.
as a Taiwanese Chinese, I let my 3rd grader learnt and researched this couple years ago as it is such an important humanitarian integrity to pass down to our next generation.
A wonderful hero, wish I learned about him sooner! There are many obscure heroes who helped save thousands of Jews, one of which (I found the most interesting) being Albert Goering. Operated under the shadow of his vicious brother to help save thousands of Jews. Its a shame that his name resulted in him losing it all.
You know, there is another one 王替夫. Wang Tifu (June 29, 1911 - July 13, 2001) was a Han Chinese diplomat of Manchukuo, known for saving 12,000 Jews during World War II. He served as a junior diplomat ("Councilor Assistant") at the Manchukuo embassy in Berlin. During the Nazi persecution, Wang used his diplomatic position to issue visas and provide refuge for Jewish people, helping them escape from Germany. His courageous actions reflect a strong sense of humanity and compassion, despite the significant risks involved. Could you make a video for him? Thanks
My children's preschool teacher's father, who was a part of a Yeshiva in Shang Hai and later lived in New York, was saved by Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat with a similar story.
My grandfather was captured during 2nd world war,and was taken in concentration camp.He was soldier of red army,he have seen all things that nazi have done for jewish people. From Kazakhstan🇰🇿🇮🇱 I wish prosperity and peace to Israel,wonderful nation😌❤️
Do you mean to? RIP all beautiful souls lost in the Holocaust, n4zi brutality, human attrocities and tragedies, God be with them and all their families, friends and loved ones✝️🙏🤍
For the record, Schlinder was treated oh so very well in Mr. Speilbergs movie. The man, while doing a great thing, was a monster in his own right. No props deserved.
Let us be reminded that a person’s nationality, ideology and lifestyle make up only a part of their true self. What truely defines an individual is always their personal conducts, both in everyday life and in time of crisis. I wish the world could be united by our shared kindness to each others rather than divided by the fickle definition of our differences.
I have seen the Shanghai Jewish quarters but I never knew the reason why so many Jews chose a city in the middle of a warzone as a destination. Now I know why. Thanks for this documentary.
He worked for the Chinese government under Guo Min Dang (also Kuomintang, National party of China). As Ho retired, the government he worked for was in Taiwan. But this video said the Chinese government denied him his pension. That’s misleading. Because at that time, the official Chinese government was CCP. Ho lived in Taiwan after 1949. So the government that denied his pension was the Taiwanese Government.
China and Taiwan are 2 different govt, he works for china govt but as u said retired to Taiwan,how do u expect the Taiwanese govt to pay his pension when he doesn't work for them?
@@judymckee5992 Learn some history. Every single one in the Taiwanese government was from mainland China, and they call themselves the Chinese government.
@@judymckee5992 I have already described the answer clearly enough in the previous comment. I don't see any need to add anything. You obviously don't know enough about Chinese history. If I were you, I would have informed myself first and acquired the knowledge before asking such a question and embarrassing myself completely
Chinese, Japanese, Pilipino, you name it, you will find good people willing to help those who suffered. Feng-Shan Ho is one of them. You dig deeper, you will find more.
Wonderful story! I had never heard about Feng-Shan Ho before. The roads on the banks of the Danube in my hometown Budapest are named after people who saved Jewish lives in World War II, including diplomats like Raoul Wallenberg (Sweden), Carl Lutz (Switzerland) or Angelo Rotta (Holy See).
If all history books being wrote with full truth, no countries in this world will be able held their head up All histories in this worlds full of blood and cruelty
It’s relatively well known in Chinese social media. And because of stories like these Chinese people had a good impression of Israel. cnetz were appalled to see Israel’s actions from Oct 2023.
wow i never heard of this guy and what he had done for the Jews. he faced odds like no other person did at the time. risking his life and didnt think twice about trying to help the Jews. what a hero was at the time !!
There were - like Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, Chiune Sugihara, and Abdol Hossein Sardari: ruclips.net/video/SLcuUG1CTBo/видео.htmlsi=dU4Y3MEENnLcBrwO
Important to note that Feng Shan-Ho was born on 9/20/1901, the Jewish date was Tishrei 7th (Friday)5662. Shan-Ho died on 9/28/1997 = Elul 26th. Elul is the last month in the Jewish yearly cycle before Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year), it is viewed as a month of reflection on the previous year and looking forward to the next year. Based on this information, I strongly believe Shan-Ho is at peace in Heaven.
Today I read about Feng Shan Ho for the first time. Our newspaper reported on him in a large detailed article. A great person who stood up for other people. Simply a great story - they should make a movie about this hero !!!
This is something I never knew about but youtube somehow found itself on my page to watch it. Now I have some researching to do. thanks! I even had an experience about Jewish ancestry in China. Keep reading. I was in a relationship with a woman who I thought at that time was a mixed person with Chinese / American descent, boy was i wrong. I was 27 at the time when we went together to visit her grandparents in Kaifeng, China. I visited her grandmother on her mother's side of the family and that was when l learned about her Jewish family ancestry. Her great grandmother was chinese and her great grandfather was Jewish. He escaped the war in europe and lived in Kaifeng city. My girlfriend and her mother were the descendents of the Jewish people who once lived in this small city in Kaifeng . From what I can remember during my conversation with my former girlfriend is some of the Jewish people have either assimilated to the Chinese culture and became mixed like her and her mother. While other Jewish family in Kaifeng after the war ended many left China to live in Australia, America or went back to Europe and to Israel. At that time I never understood why she kept her jewish background from me until I visited China with her. She thought other people and I would look down on her for being a descendent of Jewish ancestry. Her family taught her to hide it and because of her family having to deal with being looked down upon in China so it carried over into her life. Honestly I believe even today she still is ashamed of her Jewish background which she shouldn't be. Her family story was amazing to hear and learn about and her family should openly tell it to the world not by me. Another history I learned about the city of Kaifeng during my visit to China. It's one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China dating back to warring states period all the way to the the Song Dynasty. The infrastructure of the old city walls still stands today even though it has been fixed still that is Amazing!
Someone from my town was rescued from the Holocaust by escaping to Shanghai as a child. She said, "Life was really tough in Shanghai. I thought I was in hell. But when i realized what happened to those who stayed in Europe, I realized I had been in heaven." Thank you Feng-Shan Ho
Hallo Wumao
@@ryandelong2759 Hello brain dead.
@ryandelong2759 Thatz very rude and disrespectful to people who saved the Jews in time of need during the Nazi Holocaust. He saved thousands of people, show some respect.
@@ftd7435 no he didn’t liar. Look it up. He was the perpetrator of the holocaust and will be resurrected judged and punished.
@@ftd7435 my family are Jews and died in the holocaust. Who are who to lie about it?
He saved far more people than Schindler did. He's not the Chinese Schindler: Schindler is the German Feng-Shan Ho.
how many schindler saved?
@@enkii82 +-1,200. Which is still incredible and should earn him a place in history forever. But Feng-Shan Ho should be a household name.
@@unclescipio3136 this got me interested, and i googled A photo at Temple Emanu-el shows Austrian Jews who turned to the Chinese consulate in Vienna. It looks like there are 30 people lining up. That's for a day. Plus, I read that each guy would request and take more than 5 visas for their familly. Lets say he took weekends off: 30 x 260 = 7800 for a year. He could have saved anything from 8000 to 20000 jews per year, at least. And he was there for two years. God knows how many he saved.
@@enkii82 the funny thing is china at the time is probably the only consulate that can issue those visa. Shanghai was in a entanglement with international powers, making it a visa free port, you dont need traveling documentss to go there.
@@juzcalling But you need visa to get out of Austria though
When I was a student in an Australian University, my lecturer who was then Dr Walter Ivantsoff told me, “Do you know I’m a Chinese? I consider myself Chinese because we were rescued by China and we escaped via China and finally ended up in Australia. “ Wished I had asked him more of his story as he was keen to share it. He told me he would always be grateful to china for allowing his family entry and to stay there. He has since departed this chaotic world.
I wonder if he is one of the diplomat Fan Shen Ho saved his family 😊
That part of China is now Taiwan.
@@JERRY_ONGyea, a lot of people mix up ww2 China with ccp China, it’s totally different
At that time China is not Red China It is the Nationalist Chinese govt . Present day TAIWAN
@@JERRY_ONGlol wrong. Shanghai is not in Taiwan
Yes he issued a lot visas to Jewish people. So they could go to Shanghai, now Shanghai has a Jewish museum that tells history. If you go to Shanghai, you can visit the museum.
Been there twice, it's a really interesting museum.
The museum in Shanghai has now been put to question, after Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
I managed to visit the museum when I was in Shanghai some time ago. Worth a visit.
@@jonwijaya8539we should not let the chaos of today obscure the past. There're lessons to be learned from history, a shame that today's power reject to see them...
@@AlonzoRodrigoEzcurraSilvaforgive this scumbag , he is just indonesian
Please allow me to express my most sincere tribute to Mr. Ho for his contributions to the Jewish community and to humanity. It is a profound regret that we will never know exactly how many people he saved during those times-thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands? Mr. Ho himself never thought to keep track of these details. As his daughter has mentioned, I am not at all surprised by his deeds, for he was indeed a man of integrity. It is important to acknowledge that the story of the Jewish people did not end upon their arrival in Shanghai. There, they received protection from more benevolent souls; life in Shanghai might have been harsh, but those kind-hearted individuals did everything within their power to assist the Jewish people.
Perhaps this story might soften the hearts of the Zionists who along with the US are hell-bent on destroying China for economic and political reasons.
This is a GREAT video! I am Jewish and I never heard of this wonderful man. I'm sending the link to your video to all of my family members. THANK YOU for the time and effort you put out to illuminate this true hero!
You should visit the Shanghai Ghetto Museum. There's not much of the Ghetto left. But it's quite cool
Dont believe everything you hear from Chlna. Their school text books says China played the main role in victiorious i outcome of the allies in the WW2. They celebrate VJ day every year as thier victory over the Axis power
I've always considered the Chinese the Jews of the far east. Both lie, steal, and cheat at any opportunity they can
Cheers🥂
"Shanghai Ghetto Museum", I'm Googling it, now !!!@@kindlyignore
I's come out "Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum". @@kindlyignore
I volunteered as an English interpreter for the Jewish museum in shanghai one summer during college there. I knew Ho’s story and was deeply moved. I recently learned my Russian-Jewish-Australian colleague’s family sought refuge in China before moving to Australia. His legacy lives on.
I'd also recommend looking up Chiune Sampo Sugihara. He was a Christian. A Japanese diplomate who was stationed in Lithuania. Going against his diplomatic orders, he wrote transit visas for thousands of jews to travel through Japan to reach another country. He was recalled to Japan, and as the train pulled out of the station - he threw his blank forms and his stamp to the jews on the platform. He lost his position, and lived quietly. No one knew what he had done, until the Israeli Ambassador to Japan showed up at his funeral.
thx for mentioning our brave diplomat. he and I share the growing places btw.
@@bigqandlil He deserves recognition and honor for the lives he saved.
Thanks so much for sharing another unknown hero's story.
Very brave man.
i didnt know he was chrisitan tho he should be recognized more in my country
What a great story! I never heard of Feng-Shan Ho before. It does remind me of the story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler." He saved thousands of Lithuanian Jews also by issuing passports. He too was honored by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.
And he too was also punished by his country.
I’ve heard that on his train ride back he was still busy stamping on visas and throwing them out of the window
Have you heard John Rabe before? That's another interesting story.
@@oh_k8 He lost his position and was blacklisted. He went from being a respected international diplomat, to someone who had to scrounge for a living.
@@oh_k8 Sugihara was dismissed from the Japanese foreign service. But I guess you know more than his wife since she was merely an eye witness to evens.
Wow… just wow… what a beautiful human being. Humanity can be lacking at times as this world can be very dark. These incredible brave souls that pop up from time to time produce enough light to radiate for future generations to live in peace or at the very least the hope for peace. Long live Feng-Shan Ho!
Thanks for highlighting the story of Feng-Shan Ho.
Years ago I saw documentary film Shanghai Ghetto. If you find it give it a look
May his memory be a blessing : thank you Mr Feng-Shan Ho.
Thank you _Unpacked_ for giving him the recognition he deserved, and kudos for his daughter's dedication to honour her father's memory.
I wish I could hear about Feng-Shan Ho before. His story brings back hope in the human nature. My father freed a transit camp near Nuremberg. Hundreds of corpses were overleft. He had a post traumatic syndrom the rest of his life.
Hopefully, a future episode will cover Manuel Quezon, given that he played a huge role in saving over a thousand Jews from the Holocaust by welcoming them to the Philippines (my home country).
no "me too" makes you so desperate
Thanks didn't know that. Very interesting as there were more than Schindler.
Quezon as in Quezon City? Same guy?
@@JohnSmith-or4ed Quezon City is named after him.
The Philippine Schindler.
This guy was obviously a wonderful person. I had no idea he even existed until I saw this video. I hope others come to know this mans wonderful story.
I am an Chinese from mainland. This is the first time heard that historical story. Thanks for telling!
@@John-.-Smith111 看了! 先輩偉大!
@@John-.-Smith111 日本也有一位，名字忘了
@@davidzhang5600 杉原千畝 Chiune Sugihara
@@davidzhang5600 Chiune sugihara 杉原 千畝
Thank you for the information. At this point in we should have discovered all these brave people so we could have publically thanked them.
They all are memorialized at Yad Veshem in Israel
He isn't a Chinese Schindler. Schindler is a German Feng-Shan Ho.
Exactly👍
There is a gigantic difference between a Chinese diplomat who although in real danger also enjoyed far more safety with a diplomatic status with most likely the worst fate he would have received was being deported back to China which is a place he could go at any time and indeed was back in China by 1940 and Schindler who was a German and saved Jewish lives all the way to the end of the war and the defeat of the germans in 1944 who would only have recieved the worst kind of death if found out.
Feng-Shan Ho was a moral human being and a great man and saved many lives by helping them to flee before the holocaust but not anywhere near a comparison to Schindler in what was accomplished as he KEPT Jews alive at the height of the holocaust under the regime that was in the full force of it's extermination and in it's most darkest days.
I am eternally grateful for them both.
@@Flintlockon He would've been arrested by the SS though, not just deported back to China. China was weak at the time & in good relations with Germany, which they couldn't afford to damage.
@@dyawrYour absolutely right but Germany in 1940 is not Germany of 1944 and the SS would only have deported him at that time and would under no curcumstance execute a foreign diplomat for signing visa's. They would have declared him persona non grata and sent him back and it may have soured relations with China maybe but Mr Ho was not under anything like the danger Schindler was in 1944 dealing with the SS directly every day.
Mr Ho is a hero and stands with the finest of human beings and many diplomats did similar things for the same noble cause but Schindler kept Jews alive all the way through the war and holocaust while they were in the SS clutch the entire time.
I mean it when i say i am grateful for them both
@@Flintlockon I would say the SS was very strong & confident at the beginning of the war, no? Between 1938-1940 it could've been very dangerous if they wanted to make an example out of him.
_"At first, diplomats posted in Germany were spared and even wooed by Hermann Goering, but their situation started deteriorating in 1935. Their sources of information dried up. They knew their German employees were spying on them and sometimes feared for their lives._
_André François-Poncet preferred meeting his British and American counterparts in the Tiergarten, the large park in Berlin. Germany’s alliances in the Axis increasingly isolated Western diplomats."_
- from "Diplomats facing the Shoah", article
Great Human Being...A Good Samaritan ❤
People like Feng-Shan Ho, Oskar Schindler, Manuel L. Quezon, Abdol Hossein Sardari, Chiune Sugihara, Raoul Gustaf Wallenberg, and others deserve to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for their Compassion, heroism, and bravery
After so many years since the Holocaust we are still learning about yet another Hero ! ❤
Well it is a wet rainy day in London and that story has lifted my spirits. wonderful.
Thank you Feng-Shan Ho.
This is a story that must be told. I love stories like this. Thank you for educating us on this most honorable man.
I never knew this. What a righteous person he was.
Now, this is the kind of story the whole world needs to hear. Inspirational life. A true hero for each of us to aspire to emulate.
Thank you for this incredible information. This gentleman was incredibly brave and must have had a stalwart personal code in order to maintain his intended mission through such all-encompassing pressure. Thank you for honoring his achievements.
Thank you for your bravery, your courage, and acting on your sense of justice, Feng Shan Ho 🙏🏼🕊️
Thank you for including this man’s name in Chinese characters. That is such an important detail that unfortunately few people not conversant with the Chinese languages even know that they do not know…too often, to their own detriment as seekers of knowledge. Well done.
We thank God for such men of integrity and valour
May his descendants be well blessed
Amen✝️🙏❤️🤍
Let us not forget John Rabe, a Nazi German who saved Chinese lives during the Nanking Massacre.
China and Chinese will never forget anyone that had helped them during WW2. They restored his residential house in Nanjing and built a memorial for him.
God used people to fulfill His purpose.
He's just an arms dealer tho. He turned against the Japanese not because he wanted to save the Chinese, but because he couldn't stand to see his business ruined by the Japanese army. He was only taking China's side for his own benefit, since his position in China would be jeopardized if Japan and Germany were to form an alliance. To say that he fought to save the Chinese from the Japanese sounds pretty much like propaganda to be honest. And his testimony was so full of contradictions that it was not even adopted at trial.
@@JaneChong-w6pto kill millions of people?
@@user-qm7jwnot true, the japanese fully occupied the territory, there is nothing the german government or the chinese government can do that can protect him. He absolutely have to risk his life to save the chinese refugee. Shindlers testimony was also full of holes, but its the testimony of the those he saved that counts the most. The irony was the chinese refugee were saved by a giant nazi flag.
This brought me to tears Thank you for the bravery of Feng-Shan Ho and willingness to help those Jews. ❤ Gid bless his memory and hus family.
According to his daughter He Manli, Mr. He came from a poor family since he was a child. He received help from the Lutheran Church before he could continue his studies and eventually received a doctorate in economics from the University of Munich in Germany. After retiring, he settled in San Francisco, USA. In addition to writing, he was enthusiastic about church work. He died in 1997 at the age of 96.
May his memory be a blessing. Thank you so much for this video.
I learned of his existence in a Jewish museum in New York, and now I learned even more! Thank you
Thank you so much for this! It's very fascinating. Can you please run a clip like this on Aristedes de Sousa Mendez? Extremely similar story on a Portuguese diplomat working in France. He personally helped rescue my grandfather and my wife's great grandfather, just days apart from each other.
After such a long time, I come across this name again. I read about him in a book many years ago and I remember parts of his name with do Amaral.
I had tears in my eyes. He was a true humanitarian, a true hero. May he never be forgotten and people of all nations know of his Christ-like compassionate actions. His heart was in the right place. May his soul rest in peace and his descendants be blessed
@@oh_k8 so sad.
@@oh_k8 You seem to have found the cloud in the silver lining. Assuming you’re correct, is your point that he should have let European Jews die because American Jews a couple generations before discouraged immigration on the other side of the planet? So, by your logic since Chairman Mao’s great leap forward caused the death of 30 million Chinese in the 1950s, then the American Jews were right to exclude the Chinese in the 1880s in the Chinese Exclusion Act? I get it now. Thanks.
Thank you for highlighting this incredible man!
Incredible story. Thank you.
Nice to see righteousness can come in all human flavours.
Flavours can turn sour, very sour.
@@QuocBinh-us7lb the white flavour sour the most
@@justafletcher100 Yeah, but that's hardly the point , white committed more crime than any other races, both to others and themselves.
A man to be remembered a story to be told. Thankyou Sir for your service
I read about him in school once. What a beautiful soul ❤
Reminds me of the Japanese ambassador to Lithuania , Chiune Sugihara, during world war II, who wrote many hundreds of visas for the Jewish people living there to escape the Nazis.
Was thinking the same! My grandfather (Hillel Levine) wrote a biography about him.
at first i thought that's what the video was going to be about
There was a Dutch diplomat, Jan Zwartendijk, in Lithuania at the same time who did the same thing. He was reprimanded, of course, and it took quite some time for him to be exonerated, posthumously.
Reminds me how the Nazis saved the Chinese from Japanese during WW2 at the same time. History is fascinating.
@@har3036 Actually, the Chiune Sugihara and Jan Zwartendijk story should really be told together. They were the one-two that allowed the Lithuania Jews to leave for safer areas.
Zwartendijk issued Curacao "visas" that would not have allowed the Jews to leave for Curacao but enabled Sugihara the excuse to issue Japanese transit visas that allowed them to leave.
Both did so at great personal risk and later career loss.
as a Taiwanese Chinese, I let my 3rd grader learnt and researched this couple years ago as it is such an important humanitarian integrity to pass down to our next generation.
Also get your child
50 Common Myths About Japanese-Americans and the Atomic Bomb in WWII: The Non-PC Answers You Will Not Find on Wikipedia, please.
THIS NEEDS TO BE ON INSTAGRAM!!! So i can share it please
Thank you for retelling his story here.
A wonderful hero, wish I learned about him sooner! There are many obscure heroes who helped save thousands of Jews, one of which (I found the most interesting) being Albert Goering. Operated under the shadow of his vicious brother to help save thousands of Jews. Its a shame that his name resulted in him losing it all.
Such ignored stories of humanitarian courage of people like
Feng-Shan Ho and Manuel Quezon must be publicised to raise
human consciousness.
You know, there is another one 王替夫. Wang Tifu (June 29, 1911 - July 13, 2001) was a Han Chinese diplomat of Manchukuo, known for saving 12,000 Jews during World War II. He served as a junior diplomat ("Councilor Assistant") at the Manchukuo embassy in Berlin. During the Nazi persecution, Wang used his diplomatic position to issue visas and provide refuge for Jewish people, helping them escape from Germany. His courageous actions reflect a strong sense of humanity and compassion, despite the significant risks involved. Could you make a video for him? Thanks
My children's preschool teacher's father, who was a part of a Yeshiva in Shang Hai and later lived in New York, was saved by Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat with a similar story.
We tell that story here! ruclips.net/video/bM9HttouP30/видео.htmlsi=KFzmzOiGnNuUGFH0
My grandfather was captured during 2nd world war,and was taken in concentration camp.He was soldier of red army,he have seen all things that nazi have done for jewish people.
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I wish prosperity and peace to Israel,wonderful nation😌❤️
The Nazis were horrible to the Russian soldiers.
American and British soldiers also liberated the camps such as Dachau and Buchenwald which were freed by the US Army towards wars end
And now Israel is doing exactly what the Nazis did.
Do you mean to? RIP all beautiful souls lost in the Holocaust, n4zi brutality, human attrocities and tragedies, God be with them and all their families, friends and loved ones✝️🙏🤍
What an astounding video! And what a superhuman guardian angel Feng-Shan Ho was!
I salute his heroism!
I've never heard of this man before, but I'm fascinated especially because he was born in the same city as my grandfather.
For the record, Schlinder was treated oh so very well in Mr. Speilbergs movie. The man, while doing a great thing, was a monster in his own right. No props deserved.
Let us be reminded that a person’s nationality, ideology and lifestyle make up only a part of their true self. What truely defines an individual is always their personal conducts, both in everyday life and in time of crisis. I wish the world could be united by our shared kindness to each others rather than divided by the fickle definition of our differences.
Yes. That should be. "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens"- Baha'i Principle.
Singaporean Chinese here. His name literally means Phoenix Mountain. That's an incredible name to have.
Beautiful souls living with utmost empathy and compassion . I salute you sir. 🙏
I have seen the Shanghai Jewish quarters but I never knew the reason why so many Jews chose a city in the middle of a warzone as a destination. Now I know why. Thanks for this documentary.
Thank you for this.
Amazing! Such a great person.
Thank you for telling us about this amazing man.
He worked for the Chinese government under Guo Min Dang (also Kuomintang, National party of China). As Ho retired, the government he worked for was in Taiwan. But this video said the Chinese government denied him his pension. That’s misleading. Because at that time, the official Chinese government was CCP. Ho lived in Taiwan after 1949. So the government that denied his pension was the Taiwanese Government.
China and Taiwan are 2 different govt, he works for china govt but as u said retired to Taiwan,how do u expect the Taiwanese govt to pay his pension when he doesn't work for them?
@@judymckee5992 Learn some history. Every single one in the Taiwanese government was from mainland China, and they call themselves the Chinese government.
@@judymckee5992
I have already described the answer clearly enough in the previous comment. I don't see any need to add anything. You obviously don't know enough about Chinese history. If I were you, I would have informed myself first and acquired the knowledge before asking such a question and embarrassing myself completely
@@judymckee5992read her comment again, this time slowly.
Chinese, Japanese, Pilipino, you name it, you will find good people willing to help those who suffered. Feng-Shan Ho is one of them. You dig deeper, you will find more.
Wonderful story! I had never heard about Feng-Shan Ho before. The roads on the banks of the Danube in my hometown Budapest are named after people who saved Jewish lives in World War II, including diplomats like Raoul Wallenberg (Sweden), Carl Lutz (Switzerland) or Angelo Rotta (Holy See).
I can't believe I've never heard of Ho Feng Shan. This is truly interesting.
"Stand for what's right, even if you stand alone."
What a beautiful person- bless-❤️and this fascinating story was so well told! 💐
It is a fucking shame that our history books don't teach this.
If all history books being wrote with full truth, no countries in this world will be able held their head up
All histories in this worlds full of blood and cruelty
his story is relatively well known in Chinese media. I've heard of him years ago. But I've never heard anyone non-Chinese know about or recognize him.
It’s relatively well known in Chinese social media. And because of stories like these Chinese people had a good impression of Israel. cnetz were appalled to see Israel’s actions from Oct 2023.
Thank you so much for this.
Incredible story. Incredible man.
Thank you for sharing this.
Your documentations are breathtaking. I have been depressed yet find hope in it!
wow i never heard of this guy and what he had done for the Jews. he faced odds like no other person did at the time. risking his life and didnt think twice about trying to help the Jews. what a hero was at the time !!
Thanks for sharing the story! Not so many people know about this!
I heard of this story from an old Jewish friend from Brooklyn.
Thank you for sharing! I learned a lot
This must be made into the film ❤
Not an western movie.
Jika barat yang membuat filem tentang ini mereka tidak akan jujur
Satanic Hollywood is Racist toward Chinese People
@@acuantjahyadi7393documentaries are non embellished.
yeah Hollywood will make Brad Pitt play him.
Didn't know this, thanks for posting. Were there others?
There were - like Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, Chiune Sugihara, and Abdol Hossein Sardari: ruclips.net/video/SLcuUG1CTBo/видео.htmlsi=dU4Y3MEENnLcBrwO
What a wonderful human being, it saddens me that he didn’t get his pension.
God took care of him, he lives a long life .
@@judymckee5992 What? That makes no sense?
That was a man of great respect I've never heard this story before i will look more into it
Much respect to his courage
Bless his memory.
Thank you Feng-Shan Ho❤
Great story! Thank you.
I love this channel
Important to note that Feng Shan-Ho was born on 9/20/1901, the Jewish date was Tishrei 7th (Friday)5662. Shan-Ho died on 9/28/1997 = Elul 26th. Elul is the last month in the Jewish yearly cycle before Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish new year), it is viewed as a month of reflection on the previous year and looking forward to the next year. Based on this information, I strongly believe Shan-Ho is at peace in Heaven.
Thanks for telling us this hero from China. You're right: most in the world had no idea what he did.
As a Jew I had never heard of this man, GOD has a place in heaven for him, and may He bless his remaining family member, thank you for sharing
Today I read about Feng Shan Ho for the first time. Our newspaper reported on him in a large detailed article. A great person who stood up for other people. Simply a great story - they should make a movie about this hero !!!
Thank you for bringing this story out! There are truly people whom this world does not deserve because their unselfish love is beyond this world.
Well done!! Thank you for the info. That was definitely a sad and scary time in the World.
Great story! Chilling story! Great man, Feng-Shan Ho!👏👏👏👏👏
thank you so much for publicizing his story, like many Chinese Fen Shan Ho got so little recognition
Should make a movie about this
There are people of consequence, and this man is clearly one. I cant believe that i have never came across this great deed.
Thank you sir!
The woeld must know these heroes! What a Mench! Thank you for sharing this story.
Thank you. In these days we need to know that heroes have existed in time immemorial and this story proves that some human beings are truly heroes.
Time for me to search the internet about Feng-Shan Ho and fund out more about this man. 👍👍
This is something I never knew about but youtube somehow found itself on my page to watch it. Now I have some researching to do. thanks! I even had an experience about Jewish ancestry in China. Keep reading.
I was in a relationship with a woman who I thought at that time was a mixed person with Chinese / American descent, boy was i wrong. I was 27 at the time when we went together to visit her grandparents in Kaifeng, China. I visited her grandmother on her mother's side of the family and that was when l learned about her Jewish family ancestry. Her great grandmother was chinese and her great grandfather was Jewish. He escaped the war in europe and lived in Kaifeng city. My girlfriend and her mother were the descendents of the Jewish people who once lived in this small city in Kaifeng . From what I can remember during my conversation with my former girlfriend is some of the Jewish people have either assimilated to the Chinese culture and became mixed like her and her mother. While other Jewish family in Kaifeng after the war ended many left China to live in Australia, America or went back to Europe and to Israel. At that time I never understood why she kept her jewish background from me until I visited China with her. She thought other people and I would look down on her for being a descendent of Jewish ancestry. Her family taught her to hide it and because of her family having to deal with being looked down upon in China so it carried over into her life. Honestly I believe even today she still is ashamed of her Jewish background which she shouldn't be. Her family story was amazing to hear and learn about and her family should openly tell it to the world not by me.
Another history I learned about the city of Kaifeng during my visit to China. It's one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China dating back to warring states period all the way to the the Song Dynasty. The infrastructure of the old city walls still stands today even though it has been fixed still that is Amazing!
❤❤❤❤❤❤thank you for remembering him❤❤❤❤❤❤
Oh man I wish I knew about this man he’s a real hero 🥺🥺🥺