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Polish Jews in Lithuania: Escape to Japan — Document


Page 17 of passport issued to Setty Sondheimer

A page in a passport belonging to Setty Sondheimer containing stamps from Ecuador. These stamps are marked in red with the word "Anulado," the Spanish word for "canceled." The stamps were canceled when Setty's visa for Ecuador expired because she was unable to travel across the Pacific due to fighting in that theater. Setty remained in Japan for the duration of the war and emigrated to the United States in 1947. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

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



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