Moryc Goldfajl

Moryc Goldfajl received transit visa no. 1019 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records engineer, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Engineer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Perla (40), son Gregorz (6)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for New Zealand.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Perla — wife, aged 40
• Gregorz — son, aged 6

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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, at entry 2190, Moryc Goldfajl, born 1899 at Warszawa, who came from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and his wife Perla and son Grzegorz follow him on the list, as the register names them with him.
• The Kobe relatives list — refugees at Kobe in 1941 recorded with their relatives abroad. Seventy-six pages in numbered sheets (LIST No. 7, No. 16 and others), each line giving a name, age, birthplace, occupation and citizenship, and then…
  Entry 85 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1899 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, M. Cylan, Warburg Street 6, Tel Aviv; a sister, Bella Shorr, St Gaten 65, Melbourne.
• 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 173 (also numbered 221) of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 42, born at Warsaw, an engineer, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 24 February 1941.
• "List of persons arriving on route to New Zealand" — the arrival roster for the sailing from Japan, September 1941: 33 typed names, from Dr George Bluman’s own marked-up cop… — September 1941, not July; he had misread his own handwriting.
  Named on the list of persons arriving on route to New Zealand, sailing from Japan in 1941. His family note reads 'wife Perla (40), son Gregorz (6)'. Both are named on this arrival list in their own right.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 24 Feb 1941 (line 1019)
• Papers Past — the National Library of New Zealand's digitised newspapers (Evening Post, the Dominion, the Press, Auckland Star and others, 1942–1955)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: the Auckland Star of 15 August 1944 (also the Evening Star and Otago Daily Times, 15 and 17 August), read on Papers Past on 20 October 2026, names a Mr M. Goldfajl as honorary secretary of the Association of Poles in New Zealand; and an Evening Post advertisement of 22 March 1947 offers machine tools for sale through M. Goldfajl, Parkville, Melbourne. The Kobe list gives this man a sister in Melbourne. The notices give only an initial, and no age, wife or son.

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