norwegian explora humanitarian and future nobel laureate feature of finance and in one thousand nine hundred twenty one now. anson was appointed the leeks high commissioner for refugees. in one thousand twenty two he began issuing refugee travel documents that came to be known as nuns and passports. an estimated four hundred fifty thousand of these documents were issued to people who could not obtain passports from their governments the recipients included russian french artist mark shot guy and russian composer sergey rachmaninoff and igor stravinsky. many of the refugees wanted to emigrate to the u.s. and made their way to the french quarter shell board to book passage on ships. many of them were housed at the newly constructed or telecom aunty. the facility could accommodate and process two thousand refugees at a time they were given