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Document of departure from Vladivostok, Siberia, issued by the Romanian Mission there, making it possible for Yusif Izbeztchi, 40, his wife Basya Feiga and their sons Alexander, 13, Maurice, 11, and Yevsei, 8, to cross the border into Harbin in 1920. The family was originally from Kishinev in Besarabia. Yusif died in Harbin in 1929 and his wife died there in 1933. Their sons moved to Israel, the United States and Australia, respectively.  Document image and family information was provided in May 2009 by Yossi Azov, son of Alexander.

 Moishe Zilberkasten/Silberkasten was a Yiddish theater actor who moved from Warsaw to the US around 1915 after spending several years in Harbin.  This document declaring Moishe's intention to become a US citizen was provided by his great-grandson, Professor H. Daniel Wagner.
Abe_Sitsky_-_Birth_Cert_Cover.jpg (1111283 bytes) Abe_Sitsky_-_Birth_Certificate.jpg (1737848 bytes) Marriage Certificate for Abe and Sarah.
Harbin Jewish Community birth certificate (cover & document) from 1904 for Abe (Abraham) Sitsky.  Click on his name for a photo of him.  His parents were Boris Alexeivitch Sitsky (Jewish name: Chaim Ber Itschok), born in Tcheliabinsk (now Chelyabinsk), east of the Ural Mountains in Russia in 1873, and Yuliya Abramovna Yudova, born in 1873 in Samara in southeastern Russia.

 The Tientsin Hebrew Association issued this marriage certificate for Abraham Sitsky and Sarah Toper on September 23, 1932.
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Ruvim (Charles) Clurman’s 1918 birth certificate in Russian from Harbin’s Jewish Religious Society. Parents are Itsko Chaim Gershevitz Clurman and Ethel Rachel Naumovna Clurman. Ruvim (Charles) Clurman’s 1937 membership papers in Russian and Hebrew for Brit Trumpeldor (Betar), a Zionist scout troop in Harbin.
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Ruvim (Charles) Clurman’s passport (pgs 2-3), authorizing his departure from Dairen to America, issued by the Japanese puppet government of Manchou-Kuo in 1937.

 Ruvim Clurman’s passport (pgs 6-7) Ruvim Clurman’s passport (pgs 8-9) Ruvim Clurman’s passport (pgs 10-11)
Sylvia_Clurman's_1920_Birth_Record,_Russian.jpg (1126220 bytes) Sylvia_Clurman's_1920_Birth_Record,_English_Translation.jpg (1023357 bytes) Harry Clurman Birth Certificate Page 1. Harry Clurman Birth Certificate Page 2.
Birth record for Sylvia Clurman (Epstein) from Harbin’s Jewish Religious Society, in Russian. Issued in 1940, the certificate certifies that Sylvia was inscribed in “the book of born Jews in Harbin … in the feminine column” in 1920.
 Birth record for Sylvia Clurman (Epstein) from Harbin’s Jewish Religious Society, in English translation.  Click on her name for a photo of her from the 1930s. Harry Clurman Birth Certificate, 2 Feb 1923, Harbin, China, Page 1 Harry Clurman Birth Certificate, 2 Feb 1923, Harbin, China, Page 2

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