Hongkou
Hongkou (虹口 区 Hóngkǒu Qū) is one of ten “inner” districts of the government- direct city of Shanghai in the People's Republic of China .
The district borders the western bank of the Huangpu River in the south , so it belongs to the Puxi side. Hongkou has an area of 23.48 square kilometers and 792,241 inhabitants (2003). The population density is 33,741 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Formerly a financial center, Hongkou is now the location of several universities, such as the Shanghai Foreign Language University, with relationships with German universities and German students.
In addition to the city partnership between Shanghai and Hamburg , Hongkou and the Hamburg-Mitte district have been sponsored by the district since 2007.
The Shanghai Hongkou Football Stadium is a multifunctional stadium in the district.
Jewish life
A Jewish community had existed in Shanghai since the late 19th century, and it was particularly popular with Russian Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. After the failure of the Évian Conference , around 20,000 Jews from Germany and Europe fled to Shanghai from 1938 onwards, since the city was the only city apart from the Comoros that accepted Jewish refugees. Shanghai was a divided city under Chinese, Japanese, British, French and US occupations at the time. From 1941, Japan took complete control and established the Shanghai Ghetto in Hongkou . In 1943 the majority of the Jews were housed in the ghetto. After the liberation in September 1945 and the establishment of the State of Israel , almost all Jews left the city. The number temporarily fell to a few hundred in the 1950s. In the early 2010s there were around 2,000.
Administrative structure
At the community level, Hongkou is made up of eight street districts. These are:
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- ↑ Shanghai's Forgotten Jewish Past in: The Atlantic, Nov. 21, 2013
Coordinates: 31 ° 16 ' N , 121 ° 29' E