The story of how Shanghai helped shelter Jewish refugees during World War II is being told in New York. The 90-minute documentary Survival in Shanghai produced by Shanghai Media Group premiered (首映) in Manhattan on Monday evening.“What happened in Shanghai and the lasting 1)__________friendship they found is one of the most memorable chapters of the long relations between the Chinese and the Jewish people,”said Zhang Qiyue, consul general of China in New York.During World War II, Shanghai was one of two visa-free regions. Approximately 25,000 Jews from Germany, Poland and other nations 2)__________fled to Shanghai and found 3)__________refuge from the Holocaust.“We must not forget this‘4)__________miracle of Shanghai,’” said Amir Sagie, deputy consul general of Israel in New York. Though people in the Chinese mainland were suffering from the darkness of Japanese 5)__________invasion, citizens in Shanghai welcomed the unfamiliar Jewish strangers and 6)__________shielded them from devastation,”Amir added.Some refugees attended the film event. Betty Grenbenschikoff lived in Shanghai's 7)__________designated area — the ghetto as a young girl.“Life was 8)__________harsh at that time. We lived in an extremely shabby house, but we still lived happily, and it was safe in Shanghai,”she said.The production team of the documentary 9)__________interviewed around 40 Shanghai Jewish survivors.“The true stories they 10)__________recounted brought back that part of history before us. And their peaceful life nowadays makes us feel how important an open city with a diversified civilization is,”said Song Jiongming, managing director of news of Shanghai Media Group.