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Harbor from the Holocaust
"Poéme for Cello and Orchestra"
Composed by Hiao-Tsiun Ma and played by his son, Yo-Yo Ma. This piece was written by the elder Ma, who was a violinist and teacher. He wrote it about Shanghai, a city across the bay from the town he grew up in (Ningbo) and which he’d visited many times.
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Hear the story of nearly 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai.