China; Shanghai; Hongkou district: honour plaque for Werner Michael Blumenthal (born 1926 in city of Oranienburg; Germany); who lived as Jewish refugee in house 59 Zhoushan Road (former Chusan Road); from 1939 to 1947; The US American business leader; economist and political adviser W. Michael Blumehthal served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. At age thirteen; Blumenthal barely escaped Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1939; and spent World War II living in Shanghai ghetto of Japanese-occupied Shanghai; China; until 1947. Chusan Road was the commercial artery of "Little Vienna" in Shanghai with houses build in 1910 with a veranda as a significant stylish element. Occupied by the Japanese; after 1937 Chusan Road became part of the Shanghai Ghetto; formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees; an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts of modern Shanghai).