Object numberM2001/001:088
DescriptionHandwritten document written in Polish and Russian. The document dated 5 November1946 is a certified copy of a Russian language record held by the Municipal Archive in Lodz, under the title “Annexures to records of Marriages of Non-Christian faiths” – year 1904, position P46. The certified copy is issued by the Head of Registry and Director of Archive upon the written request of Maurycy Sztorchow. Bottom section typed and stamped authenticizing the birth certificate.
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 placeLodz, Poland
Production date 1946
SubjectHolocaust, communications
Object namecertificates of birth
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 212.00 mm
height: 298.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir