Posted : October 10, 1940 at Caracas

Probable Route : FAM 6-10 to Miami; USA domestic Airlines to San Francisco; FAM 14 to Manila; probably by surface ship to Shanghai.

Notes : Uncommon Pacific Clipper airmail from Venezuela to China. The cover is addressed to Mrs. Lisa Altura, in care of KOMOR, Shanghai, China. Before the war, Paul Komor held the title of Honorary Consul General for Hungary in Shanghai. In 1938, when the first Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust arrived in Shanghai from Germany and Austria, Komor co-founded the International Committee for European Immigrants (IC). The IC provided housing, jobs and financial assistance for the 20,000 Austrian, German and other Jewish refugees who came into Shanghai. The IC also issued international passports to the Jews of Shanghai whose Nazi passports were confiscated or no longer valid. Lisa Altura was a member of the IC. The United States Holocaust Museum Memorial web site provides more information about Paul Komor, Lisa Altura, and many others who worked for the International Committee for European Immigrants. Click here for a photo of Lisa Altura.

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