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[it-IT]Record tools[it-IT] [it-IT]Displays[it-IT]	Application for Registration Remove from selection Add to selection Numero oggettoM2001/001:033 TitoloApplication for Registration DescrizioneCommonwealth of Australia, Application for Registration in accordance with the Aliens Act of 1947. Document in the name of Jakob Sapir, also wife Tola and son Piotr-Seweryn, dated 4th February 1948. The document indicates that at this time the family was residing in Prahran, Melbourne although Jakob was employed by an Import & Export company "Terratex" based in Sydney. 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. Luogo di produzioneMelbourne, Victoria, Australia Data 1948-02-04 Soggettopost World War II, immigration, voyages & travels Nome oggettoregistration documents Materialepaper Dimensioni whole width: 212.00 mm whole height: 340.00 mm Linea di creditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir

Numero oggettoM2001/001:033

TitoloApplication for Registration

DescrizioneCommonwealth of Australia, Application for Registration in accordance with the Aliens Act of 1947. Document in the name of Jakob Sapir, also wife Tola and son Piotr-Seweryn, dated 4th February 1948. The document indicates that at this time the family was residing in Prahran, Melbourne although Jakob was employed by an Import & Export company "Terratex" based in Sydney.

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.

Luogo di produzioneMelbourne, Victoria, Australia

Data 1948-02-04

Soggettopost World War II, immigration, voyages & travels

Nome oggettoregistration documents

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Linea di creditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Peter Sapir

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