![Receipt for items confiscated from Moshe Zupnik [LCID: 2000dfj7]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1d0ce2c3-d858-4fff-a4c9-c762323af8d8.jpg)
Soviet authorities issued this receipt, in Russian, to Moshe Zupnik for the rubles they confiscated from him before he left the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities routinely confiscated most rubles and other valuables from Jewish refugees before they boarded steamers bound for Japan and left the Soviet Union. Vladivostok, Soviet Union, January 22, 1941. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]
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