Abraham Kaufman
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Abraham Josevich Kaufman was a Russian-born medical doctor, community organizer and Zionist who helped protect some tens of thousands of Jews seeking safe-haven in East Asia from Nazi atrocities durin
Memorial plaque for Abraham Kaufman and Theodore Kaufman on the Harbin Old Synagogue Concert Hall (then the Harbin General Synagogue). Kaufman worked in the synagogue from 1919 to 1945.
Jewish settlement in the Empire of Japan began as early as the mid-19th century, but was confined to relatively small numbers of Jewish immigrants from Europe and Russia. Shortly prior to and during W
Abraham Kaufman
…officials such as Norihiro Yasue. Befriended by Imperial Japanese Army Colonel Yasue and General Kiichirō Higuchi, the engineers of the later-named "Fugu Plan", Kaufman organized three large conferences of the Far Eastern Jewish Council, which brought together Jews from across East Asia, and successfully…
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Harbin, before 1945
Shanghai in 1930s
"Shanghai ghetto" around 1943