When Manli Ho saw her father’s name being used to advertise US$40,000 houses in his hometown in China, she was outraged.“He Saved 18,000 Jewish Lives in WWII. His Hometown Has Homes for $40,000,” one headline on the now-removed English-language webpage read.Manli Ho, 75, is the daughter of Ho Feng-shan, the Chinese diplomat widely known in the West as the “Chinese Schindler” for issuing thousands of visas to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution while serving as China’s consul-general in Vienna, Austria, from 1938 to 1940.The “Schindler” comparison refers to German businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved about 1,200 Jews by employing them in...
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