* A round metal tag, painted red, with a character in Chinese at its center. This tag served for identification at the entrance to Shanghai's ghetto in the years of Japanese occupation.
This item is from the estate of Leon Ilutovich
* Leo Ilutovich, born in 1914 in Odessa, studied law in Warsaw (Warszawa). When WWII broke out,
he was active in Zionist movements and organizations in Poland, holding senior positions that included Secretary of Polish Jewry’s political delegation to the Sejm (parliament) and Secretary-General of the “General Zionists” movement’s federation in Poland. In the years 1940 - 1946 he was in Shanghai as the Jewish Agency’s representative in the Far East and Secretary of the World Jewish Congress offices there.
After the war, Leo Ilutovich held numerous important positions in the Zionist Organization of America.
He died in New York in 1997.