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Lecture by Ruth Wajsboom at Bet Ullman about the rescue of her nephew, Jacques Friedman, due to a visa that he received from Consul Sugihara

Lecture by Ruth Wajsboom at Bet Ullman about the rescue of her nephew, Jacques Friedman, due to a visa that he received from Consul Sugihara Also in the file: transcript of interview with Jacques Yaakov Friedman, born in Biała Podlaska, about his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union, Shanghai, and the Shanghai ghetto during the Holocaust. The transcript is kept in the Yad Vashem archives, Item O.33/9887.

File Number : 907

Type of Material : Lecture, תמליל

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews who received visas from the Japanese ambassador Chiune Sugihara, including information about their travels after they reached Japan

List of Jews who received visas from the Japanese ambassador Chiune Sugihara, including information about their travels after they reached Japan Also in the file: page with explanations about the list.

File Number : 1771

Type of Material : List of Refugees

Language : English

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe

Collection of stories about Righteous among the Nations, assembled by Kay Sharpe - the British Consul Robert Smallbones and the Deputy Consul Arthur Dowden in Frankfurt—after Kristallnacht, he issued provisional visas to the UK in 1938–1939, thus rescuing approx. 48,000 Jews; - the Chinese Consul Feng Shan Ho in Vienna, who saved Jews after Austria was annexed in 1938 by issuing visas to Shanghai; information is available at the Yad Vashem site and on Wikipedia; - George Ferdinand Duckwitz (a German diplomat in Denmark): after he discovered plans to deport the Jews of Denmark to concentration camps in...

File Number : 414

Type of Material : Article

Language : English