How Did a Chinese Diplomat Save 10,000 Jews in WW2? | Unpacked

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  • Feng-Shan Ho served as the Consul-General for the Republic of China in Vienna during WW2, where he risked his life and career to save possibly tens of thousands of Jews by issuing them visas in defiance of his superiors.
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    00:00 Intro
    00:39 Feng-Shan Ho's childhood
    01:04 The start of WW2
    02:04 Feng-Shan Ho decides to help Austria's Jews
    03:36 The risks involved
    05:02 Reassignment and the remainder of his career
    05:50 Manli Ho's research
    07:02 Recognitions of Feng-Shan Ho's heroism
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  • @unclescipio3136
    @unclescipio3136 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1559

    He saved far more people than Schindler did. He's not the Chinese Schindler: Schindler is the German Feng-Shan Ho.

    • @enkii82
      @enkii82 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      how many schindler saved?

    • @unclescipio3136
      @unclescipio3136 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

      @@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.

    • @enkii82
      @enkii82 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      @@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.

    • @juzcalling
      @juzcalling 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@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.

    • @enkii82
      @enkii82 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@juzcalling But you need visa to get out of Austria though

  • @Hellbender8574
    @Hellbender8574 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1428

    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
      @ryandelong2759 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hallo Wumao

    • @user-dc1ud6px3s
      @user-dc1ud6px3s 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ryandelong2759 Hello brain dead.

    • @ftd7435
      @ftd7435 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +170

      ​@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.

    • @ryandelong2759
      @ryandelong2759 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ftd7435 no he didn’t liar. Look it up. He was the perpetrator of the holocaust and will be resurrected judged and punished.

    • @ryandelong2759
      @ryandelong2759 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ftd7435 my family are Jews and died in the holocaust. Who are who to lie about it?

  • @unclesuworld
    @unclesuworld 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +509

    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.

    • @danyf.1442
      @danyf.1442 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Been there twice, it's a really interesting museum.

    • @jonwijaya8539
      @jonwijaya8539 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      The museum in Shanghai has now been put to question, after Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

    • @luckm8852
      @luckm8852 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I managed to visit the museum when I was in Shanghai some time ago. Worth a visit.

    • @AlonzoRodrigoEzcurraSilva
      @AlonzoRodrigoEzcurraSilva 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      ​@@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...

    • @M_Jono
      @M_Jono 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@AlonzoRodrigoEzcurraSilvaforgive this scumbag , he is just indonesian

  • @evechewietan
    @evechewietan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +637

    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.

    • @estherpiry3913
      @estherpiry3913 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I wonder if he is one of the diplomat Fan Shen Ho saved his family 😊

    • @JERRY_ONG
      @JERRY_ONG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      That part of China is now Taiwan.

    • @MrMrbokchoi
      @MrMrbokchoi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@JERRY_ONG Except the KMT (the nationalist government that fled to Taiwan) still considers itself Chinese and part of China.

    • @OhWowInteresting
      @OhWowInteresting 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@JERRY_ONGyea, a lot of people mix up ww2 China with ccp China, it’s totally different

    • @dawayeaung2694
      @dawayeaung2694 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At that time China is not Red China It is the Nationalist Chinese govt . Present day TAIWAN

  • @kristend344
    @kristend344 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +357

    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.

    • @rabbit07236
      @rabbit07236 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      thx for mentioning our brave diplomat. he and I share the growing places btw.

    • @kristend344
      @kristend344 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@rabbit07236 He deserves recognition and honor for the lives he saved.

    • @MonaLisa-de4cp
      @MonaLisa-de4cp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Thanks so much for sharing another unknown hero's story.

    • @susanc4622
      @susanc4622 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Very brave man.

    • @RN-rl2du
      @RN-rl2du 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      i didnt know he was chrisitan tho he should be recognized more in my country

  • @zhangjingw
    @zhangjingw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +230

    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.

    • @ringostar4904
      @ringostar4904 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @ChrisTopher-vs9zz
    @ChrisTopher-vs9zz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +360

    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!

    • @kindlyignore
      @kindlyignore 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You should visit the Shanghai Ghetto Museum. There's not much of the Ghetto left. But it's quite cool

    • @factspoken9062
      @factspoken9062 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @user-pn3im5sm7k
      @user-pn3im5sm7k 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've always considered the Chinese the Jews of the far east. Both lie, steal, and cheat at any opportunity they can
      Cheers🥂

    • @dannwing4224
      @dannwing4224 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Shanghai Ghetto Museum", I'm Googling it, now !!!@@kindlyignore

    • @dannwing4224
      @dannwing4224 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I's come out "Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum". @@kindlyignore

  • @ssstgsnhp
    @ssstgsnhp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    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.

  • @MFPhoto1
    @MFPhoto1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +242

    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.

    • @kristend344
      @kristend344 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And he too was also punished by his country.

    • @WeiYinChan
      @WeiYinChan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I’ve heard that on his train ride back he was still busy stamping on visas and throwing them out of the window

    • @taskdon769
      @taskdon769 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Have you heard John Rabe before? That's another interesting story.

    • @oh_k8
      @oh_k8 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@kristend344 Punished how? The Japanese did not support antisemitism.

    • @kristend344
      @kristend344 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@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.

  • @louisbarak3283
    @louisbarak3283 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    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!

  • @321_au
    @321_au 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +239

    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).

    • @choiklu
      @choiklu 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      no "me too" makes you so desperate

    • @williamgreen1489
      @williamgreen1489 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thanks didn't know that. Very interesting as there were more than Schindler.

    • @JohnSmith-or4ed
      @JohnSmith-or4ed 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quezon as in Quezon City? Same guy?

    • @321_au
      @321_au 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@JohnSmith-or4ed Quezon City is named after him.

    • @georgeschaut2178
      @georgeschaut2178 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Philippine Schindler.

  • @simonewoodwell7354
    @simonewoodwell7354 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +144

    Thank you for the information. At this point in we should have discovered all these brave people so we could have publically thanked them.

    • @Thingsandcosas
      @Thingsandcosas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      They all are memorialized at Yad Veshem in Israel

  • @1964_AMU
    @1964_AMU 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    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.

  • @davidzhang5600
    @davidzhang5600 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    I am an Chinese from mainland. This is the first time heard that historical story. Thanks for telling!

    • @davidzhang5600
      @davidzhang5600 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@John-.-Smith111 看了! 先輩偉大!

    • @davidzhang5600
      @davidzhang5600 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@John-.-Smith111 日本也有一位,名字忘了

    • @Sicilian49
      @Sicilian49 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@davidzhang5600 杉原千畝 Chiune Sugihara

  • @brokenbridge6316
    @brokenbridge6316 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    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.

  • @andrewlim9345
    @andrewlim9345 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Thanks for highlighting the story of Feng-Shan Ho.

    • @8Dhon
      @8Dhon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Years ago I saw documentary film Shanghai Ghetto. If you find it give it a look

  • @heavenbright2342
    @heavenbright2342 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +242

    He isn't a Chinese Schindler. Schindler is a German Feng-Shan Ho.

    • @dyawr
      @dyawr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Exactly👍

    • @Flintlockon
      @Flintlockon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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.

    • @dyawr
      @dyawr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@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.

    • @Flintlockon
      @Flintlockon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@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

    • @dyawr
      @dyawr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@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

  • @justintesara18
    @justintesara18 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    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

  • @napoleonbonapartelempereur9502
    @napoleonbonapartelempereur9502 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    Great Human Being...A Good Samaritan ❤

  • @figolu101
    @figolu101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    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.

  • @miriamzajfman4305
    @miriamzajfman4305 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    After so many years since the Holocaust we are still learning about yet another Hero ! ❤

  • @siddude
    @siddude 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    I never knew this. What a righteous person he was.

  • @onewholovesvenison5335
    @onewholovesvenison5335 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I read about him in school once. What a beautiful soul ❤

  • @cutecuteoldold
    @cutecuteoldold 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    We thank God for such men of integrity and valour
    May his descendants be well blessed

    • @julesoxana
      @julesoxana 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Amen✝️🙏❤️🤍

  • @johnchristiancanda3320
    @johnchristiancanda3320 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +239

    Let us not forget John Rabe, a Nazi German who saved Chinese lives during the Nanking Massacre.

    • @HoniiK18
      @HoniiK18 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      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.

    • @user-of1om1od4c
      @user-of1om1od4c 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      God used people to fulfill His purpose.

    • @user-qm7jw
      @user-qm7jw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      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.

    • @juzcalling
      @juzcalling 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@user-of1om1od4cto kill millions of people?

    • @juzcalling
      @juzcalling 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@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.

  • @tonyrandall3146
    @tonyrandall3146 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Nice to see righteousness can come in all human flavours.

    • @QuocBinh-us7lb
      @QuocBinh-us7lb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Flavours can turn sour, very sour.

    • @DccAnh
      @DccAnh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@QuocBinh-us7lb the white flavour sour the most

    • @DccAnh
      @DccAnh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DanGoldsmith48 Yeah, but that's hardly the point , white committed more crime than any other races, both to others and themselves.

  • @rwdswght4057
    @rwdswght4057 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Thank you for your bravery, your courage, and acting on your sense of justice, Feng Shan Ho 🙏🏼🕊️

  • @jasonoconner7863
    @jasonoconner7863 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Thank you Feng-Shan Ho.

  • @handylingua
    @handylingua 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    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.

  • @katehartley621
    @katehartley621 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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.

  • @russellstern5400
    @russellstern5400 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    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.

  • @mairiconnell6282
    @mairiconnell6282 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Well it is a wet rainy day in London and that story has lifted my spirits. wonderful.

  • @OneMondBand
    @OneMondBand 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    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.

    • @luckm8852
      @luckm8852 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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.

  • @jennifergarnatz6860
    @jennifergarnatz6860 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    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
      @oh_k8 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Considering that the Jews were huge supporters of the Chinese Exclusion Act despite the Chinese never having treated Jews with any malice.😐 I doubt they would have done the same for the Chinese if the roles were reversed.

    • @jennifergarnatz6860
      @jennifergarnatz6860 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@oh_k8 so sad.

  • @donnamartz6361
    @donnamartz6361 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    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.

  • @eshiestrik2756
    @eshiestrik2756 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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.

  • @bluedaffodil2023
    @bluedaffodil2023 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I learned of his existence in a Jewish museum in New York, and now I learned even more! Thank you

  • @Shiva99333
    @Shiva99333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Such ignored stories of humanitarian courage of people like
    Feng-Shan Ho and Manuel Quezon must be publicised to raise
    human consciousness.

  • @Conrad496
    @Conrad496 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    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😌❤️

    • @susie5254
      @susie5254 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Nazis were horrible to the Russian soldiers.

    • @CrossOfBayonne
      @CrossOfBayonne 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      American and British soldiers also liberated the camps such as Dachau and Buchenwald which were freed by the US Army towards wars end

    • @KX5Kat
      @KX5Kat 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And now Israel is doing exactly what the Nazis did.

  • @suemcgregor9248
    @suemcgregor9248 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    A man to be remembered a story to be told. Thankyou Sir for your service

  • @paulawallace8784
    @paulawallace8784 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    May his memory be a blessing. Thank you so much for this video.

  • @csjmb6193
    @csjmb6193 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    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.

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @vivianfoster702
    @vivianfoster702 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    My family is from Shanghai and lived there during WW2. They told us about the European Jews in the Shanghai ghetto. They were in dire straits - broken, starving, destitute. They always said, it is because they are a people without a home. Jews have no home (this was before Israel). They emphasize how as Chinese - we can always go "home" to China. My father told me that he saw the Jews when he was a boy, but after the war, most of them left and went to Australia - it wasn't because the Chinese was bad to them, but they had a chance to immigrate to some place better. China was a hellhole after WW2 and then the Communist took over.

  • @Spacecowgirl78993
    @Spacecowgirl78993 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    This must be made into the film ❤

    • @tforaodg
      @tforaodg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Not an western movie.

    • @acuantjahyadi7393
      @acuantjahyadi7393 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jika barat yang membuat filem tentang ini mereka tidak akan jujur

    • @ElijahHuang-di7fn
      @ElijahHuang-di7fn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Satanic Hollywood is Racist toward Chinese People

    • @ddawe31635
      @ddawe31635 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@acuantjahyadi7393documentaries are non embellished.

    • @jkid4855
      @jkid4855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yeah Hollywood will make Brad Pitt play him.

  • @crusaderkaiser2000
    @crusaderkaiser2000 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    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.

  • @raeaddor
    @raeaddor 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Singaporean Chinese here. His name literally means Phoenix Mountain. That's an incredible name to have.

  • @alexchertin3
    @alexchertin3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Thank you for highlighting this incredible man!

  • @torahthoughts6000
    @torahthoughts6000 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    THIS NEEDS TO BE ON INSTAGRAM!!! So i can share it please

  • @sarahjames6257
    @sarahjames6257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    It is a fucking shame that our history books don't teach this.

    • @vonn2221
      @vonn2221 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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

    • @jkid4855
      @jkid4855 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      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.

    • @lucyfiniarel2347
      @lucyfiniarel2347 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @iamsheep
    @iamsheep 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I've never heard of this man before, but I'm fascinated especially because he was born in the same city as my grandfather.

  • @uiticus
    @uiticus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    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.

    • @elyekehat582
      @elyekehat582 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Was thinking the same! My grandfather (Hillel Levine) wrote a biography about him.

    • @MyIndieGameDevJourney3818
      @MyIndieGameDevJourney3818 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      at first i thought that's what the video was going to be about

    • @har3036
      @har3036 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      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.

    • @gtlover2011
      @gtlover2011 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Reminds me how the Nazis saved the Chinese from Japanese during WW2 at the same time. History is fascinating.

    • @walterishere5864
      @walterishere5864 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@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.

  • @believeinpeace
    @believeinpeace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    What a wonderful human being, it saddens me that he didn’t get his pension.

    • @judymckee5992
      @judymckee5992 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      God took care of him, he lives a long life .

    • @believeinpeace
      @believeinpeace 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@judymckee5992 What? That makes no sense?

  • @HandyMan657
    @HandyMan657 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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.

  • @siuabc
    @siuabc 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I heard of this story from an old Jewish friend from Brooklyn.

  • @joeyp1927
    @joeyp1927 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Thank you for retelling his story here.

  • @kennym-mb3ll
    @kennym-mb3ll 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Bless his memory.

  • @bbd121
    @bbd121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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."

  • @allenmicky
    @allenmicky 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    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.

    • @pedros.cabrales9844
      @pedros.cabrales9844 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes. That should be. "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens"- Baha'i Principle.

  • @davidgamer321
    @davidgamer321 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Should make a movie about this

  • @lichen9071
    @lichen9071 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    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.

    • @roro4787
      @roro4787 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At that time, they were in control of China, so technically he is right

    • @judymckee5992
      @judymckee5992 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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?

    • @byhyew
      @byhyew 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@judymckee5992 Learn some history. Every single one in the Taiwanese government was from mainland China, and they call themselves the Chinese government.

    • @lichen9071
      @lichen9071 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@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

    • @MagicalKid
      @MagicalKid 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@judymckee5992read her comment again, this time slowly.

  • @poodlescone9700
    @poodlescone9700 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    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.

  • @neutraldiver1989
    @neutraldiver1989 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @kattiepenn
    @kattiepenn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks for telling us this hero from China. You're right: most in the world had no idea what he did.

  • @curiouslyme524
    @curiouslyme524 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Thank you for this.

  • @TheMenon49
    @TheMenon49 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What an astounding video! And what a superhuman guardian angel Feng-Shan Ho was!
    I salute his heroism!

  • @ianblake815
    @ianblake815 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Much respect to his courage

  • @lesliedonovan4975
    @lesliedonovan4975 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thank you so much for this.

  • @Sheepybearry
    @Sheepybearry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Amazing! Such a great person.

  • @Jack-zp3ew
    @Jack-zp3ew 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you for sharing! I learned a lot

  • @user9b2
    @user9b2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Time for me to search the internet about Feng-Shan Ho and fund out more about this man. 👍👍

  • @Catherinetatethefkingliberty
    @Catherinetatethefkingliberty 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you for sharing this. So glad that someone of my ethnicity played a significant role in saving Jewish lives. May the Lord bless the memory and Fengshan Ho's soul.

  • @vostrovostro8824
    @vostrovostro8824 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Beautiful souls living with utmost empathy and compassion . I salute you sir. 🙏

  • @lbride3738
    @lbride3738 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    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.

  • @fruzsimih7214
    @fruzsimih7214 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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).

  • @qianchenchen2363
    @qianchenchen2363 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It's always good to see humanity still exists during wars.

  • @ShelleyM007
    @ShelleyM007 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    What a beautiful person- bless-❤️and this fascinating story was so well told! 💐

  • @hsugraduation2103
    @hsugraduation2103 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Thank you for telling us about this amazing man.

  • @lacebird76
    @lacebird76 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well done!! Thank you for the info. That was definitely a sad and scary time in the World.

  • @williamgreen1489
    @williamgreen1489 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Didn't know this, thanks for posting. Were there others?

    • @UNPACKED
      @UNPACKED  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      There were - like Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, Chiune Sugihara, and Abdol Hossein Sardari: th-cam.com/video/SLcuUG1CTBo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=dU4Y3MEENnLcBrwO

  • @rhatid
    @rhatid 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great story! Chilling story! Great man, Feng-Shan Ho!👏👏👏👏👏

  • @bernaridho
    @bernaridho 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Great story! Thank you.

  • @kathytappero7179
    @kathytappero7179 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for sharing this incredible man’s story!

  • @davidcaudill7779
    @davidcaudill7779 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That was a man of great respect I've never heard this story before i will look more into it

  • @MonaLisa-de4cp
    @MonaLisa-de4cp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks so much for sharing this mostly unknown hero's story. I've never heard of him until now. People today need to stop using the word "hero" to portray someone who expresses a societal taboo lifestyle to the public. There's nothing heroic about that honestly. Heroes risk their life and livelihoods for others, not for themselves.

  • @michael3287
    @michael3287 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I love this channel

  • @svarupa
    @svarupa 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    what a story! subscribed!❤

  • @TommyGusack
    @TommyGusack 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow your really good at this. Keep it up. I was locked in.

  • @Mlmv266
    @Mlmv266 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you sir!

  • @gizelop8481
    @gizelop8481 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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

  • @gxh9061
    @gxh9061 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    thank you so much for publicizing his story, like many Chinese Fen Shan Ho got so little recognition

  • @julesoxana
    @julesoxana 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you Feng-Shan Ho❤

  • @monkeycat48
    @monkeycat48 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Oh man I wish I knew about this man he’s a real hero 🥺🥺🥺

  • @chachadodds5860
    @chachadodds5860 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Incredible story. Incredible man.
    Thank you for sharing this.

  • @stefanusgustaaf5817
    @stefanusgustaaf5817 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good Job... created by heart 👌🏾

  • @PureBadBreath
    @PureBadBreath 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There are people of consequence, and this man is clearly one. I cant believe that i have never came across this great deed.

  • @MrPookiexL3oi
    @MrPookiexL3oi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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!

  • @brianwong4458
    @brianwong4458 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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 !!

  • @albertwoodeasy9021
    @albertwoodeasy9021 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    encouraging story, a dose of optimism for humanity

  • @permaxsun
    @permaxsun หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for making this video to tell his story to a broader audience

  • @wildswan221
    @wildswan221 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Do you have a link for the daughter's site or book? It's hard to find amidst the news coverage of the past years.
    Great video!