Julian Figner
Visa no. 1011 · Kaunas, 3 August 1940
Julian Figner received transit visa no. 1011 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch
Where this comes from List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check… The 1940 Vilna refugee list has a Juljan Ejger at entry 7411, born 1893 at Warszawa, who had come from Warszawa; the register has the surname as Figner, though the forename and the year agree with what the archive holds, so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as this person's record. The JEWCOM register — the refugee register kept by the Refugee Committee of the Jewish Community of Kobe (Ashkenazim) at No. 6 Yamamoto-dori, 1-chome, whose cable address was 'JEWCOM Kobe'. Eighty-four pages on the committee's own printe…Entry 119 (also numbered 134) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 48, born at Warsaw, a merchant, who arrived in Japan on 14 February 1941. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321 He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru on 27 May 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Tigner Juljusz". (Heian Maru, Yokohama, 27 May 1941.)
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visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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