主题：【原创】时事述评：黄海和南海 -- 井底望天

The Jewish director has already picked a title to demonstrate his contempt towards China.

to some extent, I guess both sides, China and Jews, did not and do not tell the full truth.

It is true that there was no entry visa at that time since Chinese had no full control of Shanghai at all and the concessions(Zu Jie) were like foreign land on China's soil.

这部纪录片中充斥这犹太人的自我赞颂,对中国/中国人的态度却令人不满:

1. 对于常公在上海战败并丧失国家主权持幸灾乐祸的态度.

--We had to admit that KMT gov. was such an unbelievable corrupted loser gov. The first half of Anti-Jap War was series of humiliating stories.

KMT's armies sound really like the poor Italian army during the WWII.

Chinese deserved contempt with such kind of terribly corrupted gov. Chinese got some respect after the Korea War because even Americans were defeated ... Respect is earned, not deserved.

2. 用大量篇幅强调上海的"恶劣条件",比如气候炎热,住房拥挤,卫生条件差等等.

--it was because Jewish getto was located in Hong Kou district. They were too poor to afford high-end housing in the French concession (Lu Wan district). I lived in Lu Wan and my cousin lived in Hong Kou: the houses are like heaven compared to hell.

--Everything is relative. Those Jews used to be middle-class or high-end social celebrities in richer European nations (such as Germany or France), so it was a big constrast for them.

--BTW, those Jews from Russia did not complain. Those rich Russian Jews already bought up nice properties in Shanghai and lived like king and queen there. Very poor Russian Jews did not complain because life in Shanghai was just as bad as life back in Russia. So everything is relative.

3. 对于中国人提供的帮助,比如何凤山的事迹,比如上海人的友善态度,要么不提,要么轻描淡写.

--First, white people remember favor from whites first. Human nature.

--Second, the most helpful visa officer is actually a Swedish diplomat, who not only issued Swedish visa to Jews, but also faked Swedish passports for them. He saved 20k+ Jews and was assassinated by Germans. There were systematic evidence on that. In He's case, he passed away too early in SF and there were limited evidence. Even today, we did not have exact account of how many Jews he actually helped.

--Yes. There was no systematic help from China's gov or Chinese organization because Shanghai was then already in Jap's hands. I met one nice Jew whose grandparents once lived in Shanghai. He mentioned that his grandparents traded off various accessory, such as cigar lighter, nice jacket, ties for money to buy food. Some nice Shanghainese would give them a bit more than they asked.

He and his grandparents still are grateful to Chinese for their kindness.

There were no account of other systematic help from chinese since many Chinese were suffering from Jap tyranny too then. Most Chinese were struggling for their survival too. Mr. Sui Jun-yi kept on talking about free bread from Chinese to Jews. First, it did not make sense (Chinese did not use bread as staple), second, Chinese were too poor to do that too.

Finally, 用大量篇幅强调上海的"恶劣条件",比如气候炎热,住房拥挤. I still remember the interview with an Israeli professor, who grew up in Shanghai. He was very frank. Below is the quote from him: everything is relative. When we were in Shanghai, we complained about this, we complained about that. But at least we survived and we had our own school and we grew up well. After we heard what happend to our cousins after WWII, we felt that we had lived in heaven...

"Everything is relative"-- at least he is grateful.