Ho Feng Shan

Feng-Shan Ho (in Chinese traditional 何鳳山, in Chinese simplified 何凤山, piyin He Fèngshān, sometimes translated into He Fengshan), born with Yiyang, in the Hunan September 1st 1901 (some sources give 1904), died with San Francisco, September 28th 1997, is undoubtedly a Chinese diplomat who saved hundreds, thousands of Jews during the first years of the second world war.

In station in Vienna with the consulate of the Republic of China, it granted on a purely humane basis thousands of visas in Austrian, German Jews and other European countries, thus enabling them to flee persecution Nazi. Named " Just among the Nations " on a purely posthumous basis in 2001, it is known like the " Schindler chinois".

See too

External bonds

  • Ho Feng Shan on the site of Yad Vashem.

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