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Actions Displays	Provisional passport Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2001/001:082 TitleProvisional passport DescriptionProvisional passport in German, according to the stamp issued by the Polish Governmental Commissioner of the Polish Remigrant Committee Minsk (presumably organised by the German military government in Minsk) to Jakob Sapir for the purpose of his journey from Minsk back to Lodz. Issued 29 November 1918. See inscriptions/marks for translation. 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 placeWarsaw, Poland Production date 1918 SubjectHolocaust Object nameimmigration documents Materialpaper Dimensions width: 210.00 mm height: 332.00 mm Language German Personal data on the back: first name and surname: Saphir Jakob place of birth: Lodz future place of residence: Lodz profession: none (?) religion: mosaic citizenship: Jew native language: Jewish height: 1.70m shape: normal hair colour: black Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir

Object numberM2001/001:082

TitleProvisional passport

DescriptionProvisional passport in German, according to the stamp issued by the Polish Governmental Commissioner of the Polish Remigrant Committee Minsk (presumably organised by the German military government in Minsk) to Jakob Sapir for the purpose of his journey from Minsk back to Lodz. Issued 29 November 1918. See inscriptions/marks for translation.

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 placeWarsaw, Poland

Production date 1918

SubjectHolocaust

Object nameimmigration documents

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir

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