Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Sugihara Visa" – Preparatory Documents for Receiving a Visa – Poland / Lithuania, 1939-40

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Collection of documents related to the issue of a visa for the family of David Morgenstern from Poland / Lithuania, who fled from the Nazis in 1940s using a visa issued by the Consul of Japan in Kovno, Chiune Sugihara. Documents include: * Passport certificate of David Morgenstsern, issued at Krakow in 1939, and its translation to English from Mexico, 1941. * Official document in Polish from 1939, and a document in German certifying that Morgenstern purchased a boat ticket, for himself and his family, to sail from Vladivostok in Russia to Yokohama, Japan, from September 1940. * Telegram in German, apparently from a travel company, regarding tickets and a visa to Panama and Curaçao. [Probably September 1940]. * Two postcards from the USA (1944). A number of additional documents. The visa itself is not among the documents. Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, was the Consul of Japan in Kovno. He issued to Jews from Lithuania and Poland transfer visas to Japan, and from there, using additional visas, to Dutch colonies in South America. According to estimates he helped rescue thousands of Jews. Total of 9 documents. Size and condition vary.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus