Object numberM2001/001:010
DescriptionPostcard from Mrs. Welt in Warsaw to Jakob Sapir in Vilna, Lithuania 1940. Censored by Nazis. The sender is affirming a postcard he received on 9th December and requesting some sort of document, that has been sent back and forth. They write that they send pictures the day before, presumably just as a gift, not for passports or other official documents.
Jakob Sapir, his wife Tola and son Peter, travelled in the late 1930s from Poland to Vilno in Lithuania, then on to Moscow. They then travelled from Vladivostock to Kobe, Japan and eventually arrived in Shanghai in 1941. They lived in the French quarter in Shanghai, but were later moved into the Hongkew ghetto. Peter Sapir attended St. Francis Xavier's school, run by English priests, which was outside the ghetto boundary. Jakob Sapir earned a living in Shanghai running a Polish kitchen. The family left Shanghai in 1947, aboard the "Hwa Lien" ship, migrating to Sydney, Australia.
Jakob Sapir, his wife Tola and son Peter, travelled in the late 1930s from Poland to Vilno in Lithuania, then on to Moscow. They then travelled from Vladivostock to Kobe, Japan and eventually arrived in Shanghai in 1941. They lived in the French quarter in Shanghai, but were later moved into the Hongkew ghetto. Peter Sapir attended St. Francis Xavier's school, run by English priests, which was outside the ghetto boundary. Jakob Sapir earned a living in Shanghai running a Polish kitchen. The family left Shanghai in 1947, aboard the "Hwa Lien" ship, migrating to Sydney, Australia.
Production date 1940
SubjectHolocaust, communications, censorship
Object namepostcards
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- whole width: 102.00 mm
whole height: 147.00 mm
Language
- Russian According to Lana Voznesenskaya, the sender is affirming a postcard he received on 9th December and requesting some sort of document, that has been sent back and forth. They write that they send pictures the day before, presumably just as a gift, not for passports or other official documents.
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir