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.
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… No.85, 1899 Warszawa, Polish; brother in law M.Cylan Warburg Str 6 Tel Aviv, 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… 173/221, 42, Warsaw, Ing., arr 24.2, from Vilno
"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 copy (sent 18 Aug 2026). Bluman’s red ticks mark the passengers he… 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.