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Инструменты Режимы отображения	Remove from selection Add to selection Номер объектаM2017/044:003 ОписаниеPhoto of Claudia Apollonova (left), and an older woman who may be her mother (right). Claudia was the first wife of Japanese diplomat Chiune ‘Sempo’ Sugihara. Claudia was a ‘White Russian’ who fled to Harbin, China, in the years following the Russian Revolution. She met Sugihara when he was working in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin, negotiating with the Soviet Union on the Northern Manchurian Railroad. They later divorced in 1935 and in 1940 she migrated to Australia, where she died around 1994. Chiune Sugihara served as Consul-General to the Japanese Empire in Lithuania from 1939-1940. While working in Lithuania, Sugihara became aware of the plight of Jews trying to leave Europe. In defiance of the Japanese Foreign Ministry he created his own 10-day transit visas which allowed recipients to travel through Japan on their way to places of refuge. In 1941 Sugihara was reassigned to Prague. As his train left Kaunas Railway Station in Lithuania, Sugihara was still writing visas, even throwing blank papers with his consulate stamp and signature out of the window. It is believed he issued several thousand transit visas, and consequently saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews. Место изготовленияJapan Дата 1928 - 1928 Темаdiplomat, White Russians, political refugees Наименованиеphotographs Материалpaper Размерность width: 211.00 mm height: 297.00 mm Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Tetsuya Sugihara

Номер объектаM2017/044:003

ОписаниеPhoto of Claudia Apollonova (left), and an older woman who may be her mother (right). Claudia was the first wife of Japanese diplomat Chiune ‘Sempo’ Sugihara. Claudia was a ‘White Russian’ who fled to Harbin, China, in the years following the Russian Revolution. She met Sugihara when he was working in the Manchurian Foreign Office in Harbin, negotiating with the Soviet Union on the Northern Manchurian Railroad. They later divorced in 1935 and in 1940 she migrated to Australia, where she died around 1994.

Chiune Sugihara served as Consul-General to the Japanese Empire in Lithuania from 1939-1940. While working in Lithuania, Sugihara became aware of the plight of Jews trying to leave Europe. In defiance of the Japanese Foreign Ministry he created his own 10-day transit visas which allowed recipients to travel through Japan on their way to places of refuge. In 1941 Sugihara was reassigned to Prague. As his train left Kaunas Railway Station in Lithuania, Sugihara was still writing visas, even throwing blank papers with his consulate stamp and signature out of the window. It is believed he issued several thousand transit visas, and consequently saved the lives of approximately 6,000 Jews.

Место изготовленияJapan

Дата 1928 - 1928

Темаdiplomat, White Russians, political refugees

Наименованиеphotographs

Материалpaper

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Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Tetsuya Sugihara

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