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Suitcase belonging to a Polish-Jewish refugee

A small group of Jewish refugees left Japan to join a small Jewish community in Harbin, Manchuria, in Japanese-occupied China. This image shows the interior of a leather suitcase carried by one of them to Harbin, China, 1940-1941. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

— Fishbain (Sandra, Jeffrey, and Arron); US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections



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