Russian international passport.
Issued in Katerynoslav on May 16, 1912.
Donated as a gift by Markus Slipakov.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, some Ukrainian Jews ventured into emigration to the United States, Canada, and South America, escaping pogroms and constant danger. One such story is told by the passport of Heida Tsyvia Bat Chaim Leib Slipakova, native of Katerynoslav. In 1912, Heida, her husband, and their 4-year-old son, Moisei, left their hometown forever. On August 16, 1912, the Slipakov’s family crossed the Russian-German border at the Border checkpoint in Modrzhiev (now Myslowice - Republic of Poland). Most likely, the family reached one of the German ports from where they traveled to their new homeland already on the American continent - in Argentina.