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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, APRUL 21, 2019
REFUGEES
The exhibit uses text
and photos to tell the story
of more than 20,000 Jewish
people who fl ed to the Chinese
city — one of the few
places they could travel
to without a visa — in the
1930s and ’40s to escape
the Nazi regime, and the
smaller group of about
150 people who arrived in
Brooklyn after the war
ended in 1945.
Part of the display focuses
on the ancestors of
current-day Flatbush resident
Benson Chanowitz,
whose father, two uncles,
and aunt escaped modernday
Belarus for Shanghai
around 1940. The group
stayed there for about four
years, Chanowitz told this
paper.
The Jewish and Chinese
residents of Shanghai
mostly peacefully co-existed,
but the Japanese authorities
that occupied the
city forced the Jews to live
together in a ghetto, leading
them to count down the
days until they could build
better lives elsewhere, according
to Chanowitz.
“Their focus there was
surviving during the war,
and then getting papers,”
he said. “They never had
any intention of resettling
there.”
Chanowitz’s ancestors
— all teenagers and young
adults at the time — spent
their years in Shanghai
studying at a yeshiva with
other Jews from their homeland,
he said, and moved to
Kings County with a group
of fellow students.
“They were looking to
congregate with their own
people — they wanted to go
to a neighborhood where
there’s synagogues and
kosher food available,” he
said. “They saw that there
were already established
areas in Brooklyn, and
that’s where they went.”
The refugees dispersed
throughout various Kings
County neighborhoods
once they arrived — including
Borough Park, Kensington,
Williamsburg, Midwood,
and Sheepshead Bay
— but their experiences
bonded them for life, Chanowtiz
said.
“They didn’t necessarily
have nametags saying, ‘I
was in Shanghai,’ ” he said.
“But there was always a camaraderie
with anybody
my father would introduce
me to who he was in Shanghai
with.”
The exhibit will be enhanced
by special events,
including a screening of
the documentary “Survival
in Shanghai,” at the
Central branch on April 20
at 4 pm, and a discussion
and screening of another
documentary, “Ark Shanghai,”
at the Kensington
branch on May 2 at 5:30 pm.
And at the Central branch
on April 16 at 5 pm, Xu will
talk with survivor Lisa
Brandwein about her experience
growing up as a Jewish
refugee in Shanghai 80
years ago.
“Jewish Refugees in
Shanghai” exhibit at
Brooklyn Public Library
(Central Library, 10 Grand
Army Plaza at Eastern
Parkway in Prospect Lefferts
Gardens; Kensington
Library, 4207 18th Ave.
between Seton Place and
Ocean Parkway in, www.
bklynlibrary.org). Through
May 10 at Central; April
20–May 31 at Kensington.
Free.
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Brooklyn Bridge Park bigwigs
presented renderings
of their multi-million-dollar
plan to tear down and
rebuild the beleaguered
Squibb Bridge at a community
meeting Monday.
The new bridge —
which zig-zags from its
namesake park in Brooklyn
Heights down to the waterfront
park below — will
look almost identical to
the current structure, but
the semi-private Brooklyn
Bridge Park Corporation
which oversees the green
space will replace the rotting
wood elements with
prefabricated steel, giving
it a longer shelf life than its
short-lived and troubled existence,
according to the organization’s
president.
“We’ve had multiple issues
with this bridge and
we felt that going to a prefabricated
steel would allow
us to have certainty
about the life of the bridge,”
Eric Landau told Community
Board 2’s Parks and
Recreation Committee.
Manhattan-based fi rm
Turner Construction will
start taking down the current
structure some time
around October and aim
to fi nish the project by the
summer of 2020 in keeping
with the plans Landau announced
in December, Landau
said.
The project’s engineers,
the Arup Group, completed
the bridge’s fi rst repair after
it closed in 2014.
The concrete support
structures coming out of
the ground will remain intact
for the new build, but
wood coming out of them
will also be replaced with
steel.
BRIDGE OF STEEL: The new Squibb Bridg will look much like its
current iteration but will have a structure made of steel instead of
wood. Arup
New Squibb Bridge plan unveiled
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