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Polish Jews in Lithuania: Escape to Japan — Document


Page 2 of passport issued to Setty Sondheimer

Page 2, containing an identification photograph, of a passport issued to Setty Sondheimer by the German Consulate in Kovno on January 29, 1938. With aid from Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in obtaining Japanese transit visas, Setty and her family emigrated from Kovno in February 1941. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

— USHMM, courtesy of Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid; US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections



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