"Schindler's List" is a movie that many people around the world have seen, and they all feel that Schindler saved the Jews, Jews were persecuted by Nazi fascism in World War II, and there are very few people willing to help them, Schindler is one of the typical.
Among these well-wishers who helped save the Jews was a Chinese who single-handedly rescued thousands of Jews, and he was also known as the "Schindler of China", a remarkable Chinese named He Fengshan, a native of Yiyang, Hunan.
He Fengshan was born in Yejiahe Village, Longguangqiao Town, Yiyang, an ordinary peasant family, he was smart from an early age, his academic performance was very good, in 1921, he was admitted to Changsha Yali University, in 1926, he was admitted to the University of Munich in Germany on public expense.
After graduating from Munich University, He Fengshan participated in diplomatic work, served as a first-class secretary of the Chinese legation in Austria, and in 1938, he became the Consul General of China in Vienna.
What he did not expect was that Nazi Germany set off a wave of arrests of Jews, and after the Germans annexed Austria, the Jews here were also going to suffer, the Jews were arrested, the shops were destroyed, and a large number of Jews were sent to concentration camps.
At that time, the Nazis stipulated that Jews with visas from other countries could leave Austria, and those who could not leave without visas could only wait to die in concentration camps, and Jews fled Austria, and those who could not get visas even committed suicide.
On July 13, 1938, a conference was held in Evian, France, to discuss Jewish refugees, and the 32 countries present refused to help the Jews, only Shanghai, China, became a city that received Jews, and the Chinese Consulate General in Austria became the last hope for Jews to obtain visas.
He Fengshan, the Chinese consul general in Austria, could not bear to watch the Jews being poisoned by the Nazi Party, he bravely wholesale visas to the Jews, and when he could make such a decision, He Fengshan paid a huge price, on the one hand, the Nazi authorities were looking for trouble.
The Nazi Party deliberately confiscated the house of the Consulate General, and He Fengshan rented a small house from his own pocket and continued to issue visas to the Jews in Shanghai, China.
He Fengshan did not care about the admonition of his superiors, continued to issue visas to Jews, Chen Jie even falsely accused He Fengshan of selling visas, found no solid evidence had to give up, He Fengshan continued to issue visas to Jews, until May 1940, He Fengshan was transferred out of Austria.
During this period, He Fengshan issued at least 2,000 visas, that is to say, he saved at least 2,000 Jews, including a total of Jewish teenagers named Goldstube, who ran to nearly 50 consulates in Vienna, and only He Fengshan gave him visas, a total of more than 20.
This is the visa for the Jewish teenager's family, and the only hope for their family to survive, and there are countless examples like this, but He Fengshan rarely mentioned his righteous deeds after returning to China, until September 28, 1997, when He Fengshan died at the age of 96.
After Shan's death, his righteous deeds were gradually discovered by the world, and in 2001, Israel awarded He Fengshan the title of "International Righteous Person" and built a statue for him.