Feng Shan Ho Signed ROC Visa on Reisepass Issued to Robert Wand

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.472

Object Name

Booklet, Identification

Date

11-23-1938

Files

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Description

Brown booklet titled, "Deutsches Reich, Reisepass." Includes photograph on page 2 of 32 pages, no back cover.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Passport for Robert Wand, a clerk, issued in Vienna, November 23, 1938. A German passport with the infamous red J-Stamp, an ROC visa issued by the Consulate in Vienna (Dr. Feng Shan Ho is Consul General of China in Vienna from 1938-1939) on Austrian attached and sealed passport page, a British Consulate-issued visa in Basel, Switzerland for Palestine with several Government of Palestine stamps, and a French visa for Syria and Libya. A Righteous Diplomat, Feng Shan Ho issued countless visas for Jewish refugees attempting to leave Austria after the Anschluss.

Dimensions

6 1/2 x 4 1/2"

Keywords

Vienna, passport, Feng Shan Ho, Robert Wand, visa

Subcollection

Diplomats

Recommended Citation

"Feng Shan Ho Signed ROC Visa on Reisepass Issued to Robert Wand" (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.472.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/654