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Scales used by refugees [LCID: 20027rkl]
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Scales used by refugees

Scale used by refugees Masza Swislocki and George Lieberfreund to weigh jars of artificial honey, which they manufactured and sold in the restricted area of Shanghai. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]

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refugees Shanghai China
  • Norbert Swislocki
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Collections

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