Machlis Leon

Machlis Leon received transit visa no. 1028 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 3 August 1940. The register records bookkeeper, aged 37.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Occupation

Bookkeeper

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  3647, Warszawa, 1906, from Warszawa
• 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…
  1902 Warszawa; cousin-Alter Machlis, 3131 54 str Woodside, Long Island NY; brother in law-Seweryn Fajnsztajn c/o Cukerman 6801 21 str Brooklin NY
• 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…
  #441, 39, b. Warsaw, Clerk, arr 13.2.41, from Vilno
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: MACHLIS Leon
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 79: MACHLIS Leon, file no. 3385. Match: register No.1028 'Machlis Leon', and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the index carries no ag