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[es-ES]Record tools[es-ES] [es-ES]Displays[es-ES]	Remove from selection Add to selection Número del objetoM2001/001:020 DescripciónPostcard from Estera Blumberg in Lvov to Jakob Sapir in Kobe, Japan, dated 13 January 1941. Where the postcard says in Russian 'to whom' someone had written in front of Mr Jakob Sapir's name the words Jew and Com (stands for Jewish Community). There are mathmatic equations scribbled all over the postcard. 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. Fecha 1941 TemaHolocaust, communications, censorship, Communists Nombre del objetopostcards Materialpaper Dimensiones whole width: 102.00 mm whole height: 147.00 mm Lenguaje Línea de créditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir

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DescripciónPostcard from Estera Blumberg in Lvov to Jakob Sapir in Kobe, Japan, dated 13 January 1941. Where the postcard says in Russian 'to whom' someone had written in front of Mr Jakob Sapir's name the words Jew and Com (stands for Jewish Community). There are mathmatic equations scribbled all over the postcard.

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.

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TemaHolocaust, communications, censorship, Communists

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Línea de créditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir

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