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Pass |
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фас |
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Vilna |
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Deutsche Verwaltung i. Gebiet d. Oberbesehlshabers |
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1916 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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[4] l. port. 150:90 mm., light age staining, as issued. |
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A German passport issued in Vilna in 1916. It includes the picture of an elderly Jew named Sholem Kubicki, along with a fingerprint. Interestingly, the instructions are in German and in Yiddish. |
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Detailed
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Vilna became a transit center and asylum for Jewish refugees from the vicinity during World War I. Under German occupation lack of food and discriminatory levies on the Jewish population made conditions increasingly difficult. In 1916 the 61,263 Jews formed 43.5 per cent of the population of Vilna, and their support was therefore a matter of some importance to the various claimants to the city. When it was assigned to Poland in 1923 following a complicated series of political events, the Jews were, along with the other minorities in the Polish Republic, accorded the protection of the Minorities Treaties of 1919.
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Reference
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EJ, A review of A History of the Jews in Vilna by Israel Cohen by
S. W. D. Rowson. International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 20, No. 3. (Jul., 1944),
p. 412. |
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