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Visa to Japan for Daniel Gudes, born in Mikielewszczyzna, Poland, 1914, including a certificate issued in his name by the Polish Legation in Kaunas, 05 August 1940

Visa to Japan for Daniel Gudes, born in Mikielewszczyzna, Poland, 1914, including a certificate issued in his name by the Polish Legation in Kaunas, 05 August 1940 Visas to Japan was granted to Daniel by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese Vice-Consul in Kaunas (later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); the cousin, Zerach Warhaftig, obtained visas to Japan for Daniel, his father Shimon, and his brother Zvi Hirsch, escape of Daniel to Kobe, 1940; aliya to Eretz Israel via Burma and India, 1942. The file includes: - Newspaper clipping from "Hazofe" describing the story of a Holocaust survivor from a...

File Number : 109

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Article

Language : Hebrew, Polish, French, English, Japanese

Testimony of Berl Shur, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Vilna, escape to Kobe in 1941, New Zealand and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Berl Shur, born in Krakow, Poland, 1927, regarding his experiences in Krakow, Vilna, escape to Kobe in 1941, New Zealand and other places Life before the war. Well-to-do religious family. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape with his sister and her husband and additional family members on a bus; his parents remain and they continue their lives their due to their Turkish citizenship, 1943; his parents help Jews; escape to Vilna; life in Vilna; learns at school and at home; his brother-in-law obtains visas to Japan in Kaunas; escape, spring 1941; escape on the Trans-Siberian train to Moscow and...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Bella (Mowszowski) Melman, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Slonim, Vilna, Kobe, Japan and Rhodesia

Testimony

Testimony of Bella (Mowszowski) Melman, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, Slonim, Vilna, Kobe, Japan and Rhodesia Life before the war; displays of antisemitism. Outbreak of the war, 1939; escape to Slonim; return to Bialystok; life under Soviet rule; arrival of Polish and Jewish refugees to Bialystok; escape to Vilna; attends a Jewish school; help from the community; receives a visa signed by Chiune Sempo Sugihara, who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; move to Kobe via Moscow on the trans-Siberian railroad; attitude of the Japanese. Move to...

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : English

Photographs relating to Chiune Sugihara (Righteous Among the Nations)

File Number : 47

Type of Material : Photograph

Press clippings relating to Chiune Sugihara (Righteous Among the Nations)

File Number : 46

Type of Material : Newspaper Clippings

Publications relating to Chiune Sugihara (Righteous Among the Nations)

File Number : 45

Letters relating to Chiune Sugihara (Righteous Among the Nations)

File Number : 44

Type of Material : Letter

Testimony of Nina (Wertans) Admoni, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kobe, and the Hongkew Ghetto in Shanghai

Testimony

Testimony of Nina (Wertans) Admoni, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1932, regarding her experiences in Vilna, Kobe, and the Hongkew Ghetto in Shanghai From a wealthy traditional family; the witness's father is an academic who owns storage silos; her mother is the daughter of a Vilna Jewish community leader. Escape of the family to Vilna, September 1939; life under Soviet rule; attends a Soviet school; Soviet investigation of her father; acquires a transit visa to Japan from the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Sempro Sugihara, who was later recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations; move to Moscow,...

File Number : 12836

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Tamar Dorothy (Mozes) Rawitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences during her escape to Japan using visas supplied by Japanese Consul-General Sugihara

Testimony

Testimony of Tamar Dorothy (Mozes) Rawitz, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1927, regarding her experiences during her escape to Japan using visas supplied by Japanese Consul-General Sugihara Her childhood in Warsaw; attends a Jewish school; membership in the Hashomer Hatzair movement. Escape from Warsaw immediately after the outbreak of the war, on a train with members of the Polish Government; arrival to Rovno; attends school; continuation of her escape between villages in the area one week later; move to Vilna after Soviet occupation; attends a Jewish school; activities in Hashomer Hatzair; attempts by her...

File Number : 11924

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

List of Jews from various countries who received exit permits from Soviet occupied lands from Chiune Sempo Sugihara, the Japanese Consul in Kaunas (later to be recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations), 1940

File Number : 21

Type of Material : List of Persecuted Persons

Language : English

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