Friday, August 5, 2016

Which Reminds Me

My great-grandfather's passport application was signed by Samuel Sokobin, who, coincidentally, was a Jewish man representing the United States of America, not to be confused with Ho Feng-Shan, a Chinese diplomat at Vienna, Austria, during World War II, who has been credited with saving the lives of 3,000 Jewish refugees by issuing them visas for Shanghai, against the orders of his commanding officer.