Some resisted and found a new home in different countries.They were not allowed to live in that country because they did not have visas

Between 1933 and 1939, about half of the German-Jewish population and more than two-thirds of Austrian Jews (1938-1939) fled Nazi persecution. They emigrated mainly to the United States, Palestine, elsewhere in Europe (where many would be later trapped by Nazi conquests during the war), Latin America, and Japanese-occupied Shanghai (which required no visas for entry). Jews who remained under Nazi rule were either unwilling to uproot themselves or unable to obtain visas, sponsors in host countries, or funds for emigration. Most foreign countries, including the United States, Canada, Britain, and France, were unwilling to admit very large numbers of refugees.

After Germany annexed Austria in March 1938 and particularly after the Kristallnacht pogroms of November 9–10, 1938, nations in western Europe and the Americas feared an influx of refugees. About 85,000 Jewish refugees (out of 120,000 Jewish emigrants) reached the United States between March 1938 and September 1939, but this level of immigration was far below the number seeking refuge.

Over 60,000 German Jews immigrated to Palestine during the 1930s, most under the terms of the Haavara (Transfer) Agreement. 

Great Britain itself limited its own intake of immigrants in 1938–1939, though the British government did permit the entry of some 10,000 Jewish children in a special Kindertransport (Children’s Transport) program. At the Bermuda Conference in April 1943, the Allies offered no concrete proposals for rescue.

Switzerland took in approximately 30,000 Jews, but turned back about the same number at the border. About 100,000 Jews reached the Iberian Peninsula. Spain took in a limited number of refugees and then speedily sent them on to the Portuguese port of Lisbon. From there, thousands managed to sail to the United States in 1940–1941, although thousands more were unable to obtain US entry visas.

Aside from the Dominican Republic, Shanghai was the only place that remained open to these refugees, and 20,000 or so European Jews found their way to the city in the late 1930s. Shanghai at the time was a political anomaly: Control was split between the beleaguered Republic of China, an increasingly aggressive Imperial Japan, and France, Britain, and the United States, countries that operated self-governing “concessions” exempt from Chinese law or influence.

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, more European Jews had taken refuge in Shanghai than in any other city in the world. 

In 1938, many Jewish Germans and Austrians decided that, for their safety, they needed to leave. Nazi Germany had annexed Austria in March during the Anschluss; during Kristallnacht on November 9 – 10, Nazi Party officials encouraged mobs to burn and loot Jewish businesses, synagogues, and homes and arrested approximately 30,000 Jewish men. At that time, most nations restricted the numbers of immigrants allowed in a given year, and securing visas for places like the United States could take up to ten years. Since escape was the priority, families quickly began new lives in places like Bolivia or South Africa where immigration quotas had not yet been filled.

Shanghai, China was one of the few places in the world that did not require a visa for immigration at that time. The city became a refuge for more than 17,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees who had nowhere else to go. Many arrived with little or no money because the Nazis had restricted the amount of money that people could take out of the country.