Object numberM2001/001:090
Description"Pozwolenie" - This is a Driver’s License issued to Mr Jakob Sapir, in the city of Lodz, 11 July 1935. It permits the holder to drive on all Polish public roads all types of mechanical vehicles except for motorbikes.
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 1935
Object namedriver's licences
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 85.00 mm
height: 130.00 mm
Language
- Polish This is a Driver’s License issued to Mr Jakob Sapir, issued in the city of Lodz, 11 July 1935. Residential address; 2 Dabrowskiego Square, Lodz
It permits the holder of this license to drive on all Polish public roads all types of mechanical vehicles except for motorbikes.
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir