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Polish Jews in Lithuania: Escape to Japan — Document


Intourist service voucher for the Trans-Siberian Railroad

Voucher for travel on the Trans-Siberian Railroad purchased at the "Intourist Travel Company of the USSR" in England for Joseph and Ruth Schaffer. Thousands of Jewish refugees fled Nazi Europe on the Trans-Siberian Railroad through the Soviet Union to Japan with the help of Japanese visas provided by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

— Anonymous; US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections



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