On the eve World War II, Dr. Feng Shan Ho, a young Chinese diplomat posted in Vienna, Austria, defied all odds and saved thousands of Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis. In doing so, he made Shanghai, China, a refuge of last resort for 18,000 Jews. On this 80th anniversary year of the end of WWII, his daughter, journalist Manli Ho, will share the story of her father’s humanitarian feat, and how one individual faced a cataclysmic era of moral chaos and crisis which seems increasingly parallel to ours today.
Manli Ho did not follow her father’s footsteps into diplomacy but choose journalism instead. She was a member of the reporting team that won The Boston Globe a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Boston school desegregation crisis in 1975. In 1981, she helped launch China Daily, China’s national English language newspaper. For the past two decades she has been researching and documenting the history of her father’s role in the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust and is working on a book. She has also created historic photographic exhibits which have been shown in the US, Europe and China.
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