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Life-saving visa by Chiune Sugihara returned to Tokyo

live-saving visa by Chiune Sugihara A passport containing a transit visa issued by Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), a Japanese diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews persecuted by Nazi […]

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Sugihara UNESCO Memory World Program – Update

31 October, 201731 October, 2017

Update 31.10.2017 Dear Tom, Thank you for your continued support and cooperation for our Sugihara UNESCO Memory of the World project. I regret to inform you that our nomination documents […]

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Jewish Travel Document Including A Highly Rare Visa Of Japanese Diplomat CHIUNE SUGIHARA

31 March, 20177 April, 2017

JEWISH TRAVEL DOCUMENT INCLUDING A HIGHLY RARE VISA OF JAPANESE DIPLOMAT CHIUNE SUGIHARA. THIS SINGLE PAPER ALLOWED THE JEWISH BEARER TO ESCAPE AN OTHERWISE CERTAIN DEATH IN LITHUANIA A transit visa […]

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My Grandmother Helped the Japanese Schindler Save Thousands of Jews

1 May, 201614 March, 2018

My Grandmother Helped the Japanese Schindler Save Thousands of Jews Alyza D. Lewin Apr 26, 2016 6:20 PM JTA – The story of Chiune Sugihara – the Japanese consul in […]

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Chiune Sugihara UNESCO Project

25 April, 201614 March, 2018

Chiune Sugihara UNESCO Project Yaotsu, Gifu prefecture, Japan – Sugihara’s birthplace, where also the Chiune Sugihara Memorial Hall is located As you may know, UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program […]

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The curious case of Fred Lepkin

5 February, 20156 February, 2015

Fred Lepkin is a Canadian historian and an avid genealogist on the quest to uncover his family history. How I got in contact with Fred? Well, a relative of him […]

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An act of courage saved lives – Sugihara & Wallenberg

22 January, 201526 January, 20156 Comments

Vancouverite Deborah Ross-Grayman was born after the Second World War ended. But she credits her life to the wartime actions of a single remarkable man. Chiune Sugihara was vice-consul in […]

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Altered SUGIHARA Travel Document To Save Not One Jewish Life But Two

29 April, 201427 April, 20142 Comments

This Travel Document is one of the most interesting collectible I ever got. Here is the story of this life saving document with a visa issued by righteous diplomat Chinue […]

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Sugihara & Zwartendijk Visas On One Travel Document

29 March, 201417 July, 2014

Sugihara & Zwartendijk – two of eighteen righteous diplomats which took enormous personal risks to rescue Jews and others facing persecution and peril. They were true heroes; indeed, they were […]

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Important Sugihara Passport Discovered

15 February, 201212 September, 20193 Comments

Important Sugihara Passport Discovered Today I can report and display a document issued by one of the *”Righteous Among The Nations”. (*an honorific used by the State of Israel to […]

Book review

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Your book is awesome! I love it! (GvK, Belgium)

Your book is extremely good (R.P., USA)

I love your book (R.V., NL)

Tom, actually I wanted to ask you when we can expect “Part II”? I like it very much, especially the stories behind the passports! Great job my friend and keep writing. (R.S., SG)

Your book definitely tells a lot about the history of passports and I applaud you for the effort that you put into writing the book. (Benjamin Durham, CH)

Tom, I received LET PASS OR DIE today. I’m pleased you invested in good printing, as the images are excellent. I’m looking forward to reading it and passing on purchase details to ex-colleagues from the UK Immigration National Document Fraud Unit. (S.A., UK)

I’ve got the book yesterday and it improved my knowledge about passports history immensely. (Jenwit, TH)

When I started to read the book, I understood how less I know about passports when an expert talks about them with passion. At the first glace, passports, which we see every day become even more interesting. (Pavel, BR)

I am reading the first chapters of the book and I love the theme and how it is addressed. Without a doubt it is a very interesting book. (Marcos, AG)

I am not a passport collector but I saw someone reading your book in the train during my business trip and it caught my attention. So I bought it.
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Your book arrived and what a thing of beauty it is.
(Dave, USA)

Your book is fantastic! (Ross, USA)

Sehr interessante Geschichten. Das Buch ist sehr vielfältig und hoch interessant! (Norbert, GER)

The book is fantastic! Really enjoying it. It will definitely be in our reading list for the online collection. (Karin, USA)

Your book is awesome, I can learn a lot about passport collecting! (Robert, USA)

I have begun my delighted perusing of your book. The stories of Lou Gehrig, the Confederate Brigadier General, Thomas, the bogus passport of Freud plus the Titanic survivor, Edith Brown Haussmann – all fascinating! (Susan, USA)

The story of how Israel issued me a passport with a Colander on my head has been published in a book about the history of passports, titled “Let Pass or Die”, by Tom Topol, a passport history expert. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster bless his sauces. (Michael Afanasyev, @DocSpaghetti)