Certificate, nationality certificate

Juda Hersz Fiszer was issued with this Certificate of Nationality. Juda and his wife Malka moved to London from Warsaw, Poland, in the early years of the 20th century. He was a skilled umbrella-maker and, in 1907, established an umbrella business in the heart of the Jewish East End at 45 Hanbury Street, Spitalfields. Although the family anglicised their name to Fisher soon after their arrival, Juda and his wife Malka still kept their Polish nationality.

During the First World War the Fishers moved to the more desirable area of Hackney, setting up home at 123 Victoria Park Road.

Their son, Morris Fisher, continued the family business but by the 1930s the Hanbury Street shop had closed and the premises were taken over by a tailor. Morris became a market trader, operating a stall in the Whitechapel Road selling rather than manufacturing umbrellas, walking sticks and handbags.