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  • Jan Zwartendijk life-saving visa
  • Chiune Sempo Sugihara life-saving visa
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Sugihara & Zwartendijk life-saving visas

1938 Czech passport used to travel to the Far East. Much has been written and told about the courageous and extra ordinary Japanese individual Chiune Sempo Sugihara, when acting as Japanese consul to Lithuania in the years 1939-1940, issued close to 2,400 lifesaving visas; visas that aided the users, mostly Polish Jewish refugees, to survive the war....

  • 1945 women's international conference passport
  • Post-war women's international conference passport
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  • Post-war women's international conference passport
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Post-war women’s international conference

1945 WIDF Founding Congress - Paris. The event took place during 5 days from November 26th to the 30th. The event attracted over 800 delegates from close to 40 countries who represented 81 million women at the time. The event was summarized on the first day of December during a meeting in the "Vélodrome d'Hiver"....