Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Scrip relating to the Ilutovich family in Shanghai, China.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rebeka Renia Ilutovich
Physical Details
- Classification
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Exchange Media
- Category
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Money
- Object Type
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Scrip (aat)
- Physical Description
- Chinese scrip, 100 yuan.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 6.880 inches (17.475 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Leon and Rebeka Landau Ilutovich donated their collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
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- 2024-07-16 15:37:07
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The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, scrip, publications, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland.
Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
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The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland. The collection contains extensive biographical materials relating to Leon Ilutovich. These materials include identification documents, school records, medical records, financial records, and documents relating to his travel and residency. Leon Ilutovich’s identification documents include photostat copies of his military draft card, with an English transcription, September 21, 1937; a Lithuanian Red Cross certificate, 1940; a handwritten translation of a transit visa for a trip from Japan to Curaçao, August 2, 1940; “Autotechnika” identification card with record of completed coursework, 1940-1941; a Shanghai Jewish Club guestrooms pass, August 17, 1942; a Polish Resident’s Association in China Photo ID, circa 1943-1946; and a Shanghai Zionist Organization card, 1944. The school records include a photostat of his diploma from the University of Poland, with English translation, November 7, 1932; a handwritten student identification certificate with Lithuanian notary seal, circa 1937-1940; a library form written in Russian, undated; and an affidavit in English attesting that Ilutovich earned a law degree from the Warsaw University in 1937, dated 1950. The medical records include three vaccination certificates issued in Kobe, Japan for vaccinations against typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera, and smallpox, 1941; a document issued by the Shanghai Jewish Polyclinic and Hospital which states Ilutovich was hospitalized with typhus from October 16-November 21, 1943; an International certificate of inoculation and vaccination with health certificate issued by the Shanghai Quarantine Service of the National Health Administration of the Republic of China, 1946; and a medical certificate from the Commonwealth of Australia, November 5, 1946. Residency and travel documents for Ilutovich include a transit visa for travel to Palestine, authorized by the government of Palestine, 1941; travel permits for travel within Japan, circa 1940s; travel permits for Australia, 1945-1947; a notification document regarding permission to stay for Kobe, Japan, August 12, 1941; a Shanghai residency extension permit, May 7, 1943; three Shanghai residence certificates, 1944-1946; a U.S. Naval Air Transport Service Priority Certificate, December 2, 1946; a Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. International Passenger Clearance form, September 1947; and a Pao Chia Census Form, April 6, 1944. Financial materials in the collection related to rationing include a “Foodstuff Allotment Book” and ration stamps for the Shanghai ghetto both documents are undated. Other financial materials include tickets and receipts for packages sent to Warsaw, Poland; rubles taken in Vladivostok, February 10, 1941; a receipt in Russian, 1941; a Shanghai Relief Lottery ticket, March 6, 1942; three Chinese receipts, July 28, 1942, May 19,1943, and undated; a receipt for application, March 31, 1943; a Chinese ticket, undated; and a handwritten document with numeral characters written in Chinese, undated. Correspondence in this collection is written in Polish and English. The content of the letters largely relates to Leon Ilutovich’s status as Polish refugee in Shanghai, as well as his work with Jewish agencies, his support of the Zionist movement, and his service as a delegate from China to the 22nd Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. Other correspondence relates to his work as a correspondent for The Voice of Zionism and Our Life. The few pieces of personal correspondence in the collection were written by Leon Ilutovich to Rebeka Ilutovich (born Renia Lindenbaum) in 1941, 1946, and 1947. The collection’s printed materials series includes newspapers; newspaper clippings; printed notices; programs; a World Jewish Congress Report, No. 1834, printed in Hebrew, March 29, 1946; blank travel postcards with scenes of Japan, circa 1930-1940s; and ephemera. The newspaper clippings include pieces written by Leon Ilutovich regarding the experience of Jews in China. The articles published in German were featured in the Shanghai Echo, Shanghai Jewish Chronicle, Die Neue Zeit, Lihr Abendblatt. Russian articles were published in the Wiadomsci, New Day, and Nouosti Dnia. Articles in English were published in The China Press, China Daily Tribune, North China Daily News, Daily News Shanghai, Tientsin Evening Journals, and the Cleeva Press. Articles published in Hebrew were featured in The Word. There are also articles from unidentified newspapers. Complete newspaper issues include two copies of Our Life, published in Russian, October 25, 1946, and Nasza Trybuna, published in Polish, April-May 1950. Organized under notices, the collection includes notices, leaflets, and broadsides. These materials include appeals to the Jews in Shanghai published in German and English, 1945, 1946; five notices published in Russian, 1942, undated; two copies of an election announcement published in Russian, undated; an announcement regarding Zionism published in German, undated; and an appeal to Jewish displaced persons to join the Zionist movement, published in German, undated. Programs include a program printed in Russian, May 5, 1943; a program for the “Takarazuka Girls Stage Show ‘Springparade’” April 9, no year; the Shanghai Musician Association of Stateless Refugees, August 2, 1944; a Table Tennis Tournament program, May 4, 1941; the “Wieczor Powiecony Walkom O Niepodleglosc” a play, printed in Polish, 1942; two programs for the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra at the Lyceum Theatre, 1942-1943, 1943-1944; and the Shanghai Jewish Club presents First in Shanghai Exhibition of Jewish Artists, May 5-8, 1943.
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