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From: scion12/12/2020 3:20:29 PM
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The 'Japanese Schindler' and one Australian family's tug-of-war with the national archives

Linda Royal wants to tell the story of the man who saved her Jewish family from the Nazis

by Elias Visontay
Sat 12 Dec 2020 19.00 GMT
theguardian.com

“What is the point of having an important document buried in an archive for decades, invisible and out of reach to the public?”

That is the question at the centre of an emotional tug-of-war over a historic travel document between the National Archives of Australia and the descendants of a Jewish family who fled Nazi Europe.

The visa was unearthed in September after a decades-long search for the heirloom the family believed to be lost.

The archives did not even know it held the document, until Linda Royal paid it $127.20 to search previously unopened files it held on her family.

The discovery surprised Royal. She had not expected Australian immigration authorities to have taken a visa from the passport of her father, Michael Margolin, that permitted him to travel from Lithuania to Japan in 1940, as it had no relation to entering Australia.

For Royal, the document is of double importance. Not only did it save her father and grandparents from the fate the rest of their family met at Nazi extermination camps. It was also issued by Chiune Sugihara – a Japanese diplomat who repeatedly defied orders from his Nazi-aligned bosses in Tokyo to issue unauthorised transit visas to Jewish refugees – who Royal believes should be as well known as Oskar Schindler.
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