Until this week, Andrea Fessler had never heard of Ho Feng-shan, a Chinese diplomat who helped her father and grandparents survive World War II.As a consul general to Vienna, he defied his government and issued thousands of visas that enabled persecuted Jews to escape from Austria to Shanghai in 1938 and 1939.Among those who fled their hometown of Vienna in 1938 for Shanghai were Fessler’s grandparents, Alexander and Klara, and their three-year-old son Fred, her father.Fessler was told her… Source link Chinese envoy in Vienna saved thousands of Jews from Holocaust with visas that let them flee Nazi persecution Leave...