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<DIV>Hi,</DIV>
<DIV>I think it possible, even likely that some people of Jewish origin arrived
in Korea via Japan during the Second World War.</DIV>
<DIV>About 30 years ago, I was taught how to translate Japanese patents by a
German, Jewish gentleman who managed as a young man of age 17-18 in about
1937-38, to be lucky enough to get a transfer to Japan from Germany, if I
remember rightly, in some kind of press role. </DIV>
<DIV>I don’t think that it can be safely said that he, brave as he was to embark
on such a journey at that age, was the only one who managed to escape via that
kind of route.</DIV>
<DIV>I have done a quick search on Google, and it seems that quite a few Jewish
people managed to escape to Japan from Continental Europe, even after the war
started, and may be one or two would have ended up in Korea??</DIV>
<DIV>Kind regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Nick Spencer</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=photografr7@yahoo.com
href="mailto:photografr7@yahoo.com">Bill Streifer</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 25, 2013 5:35 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com
href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com">koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KS] Koreanstudies Digest, Vol 121, Issue
36</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Nicolas,</SPAN></DIV>
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sure this is not what you meant, but I am aware of only one Jew in Korea
during WWII. </SPAN></DIV>
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you may know, there were no American personnel on the ground in all of Korea
throughout the war. And it is safe to say that none of the Germans geologists
and scientists in northern Korea at that time were Jewish. The only
possibilities of Jews in northern Korea that I am aware of is a Jewish airman
named Arthur Strilky whose B-29 Superfortress bomber (while on a POW supply
mission to Hungnam) was shot down by Soviet Yak fighters a few days before the
Japanese signed the instrument of surrender on September 2, 1945. Another
possibility -- that I could check -- is that some of the 354 British and
Australians (and a Canadian doctor) at that POW camp might have been
Jewish.</SPAN></DIV>
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All,<BR><BR>I'm looking for information regarding the Jewish community in
Korea during the Japanese Occupation. Do some of you have some stuff regarding
this issue ? Or maybe any kind of advices ?<BR><BR>Thanks you in
advance<BR><BR>Kind
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