Katz Adolf

Katz Adolf received transit visa no. 1263 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. The register records rabbi - telshe yeshiva, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

German

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Rabbi - Telshe Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 25 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: born 5 December 1916 at Fulda, with a Curaçao visa, who travelled from Vilnius.
• JDC Japan Emigration List — Kobe yeshivas, 1941 (Mir, Kamieniec, Slonim, Kleck, Radin, Telz, Lubavitch & others)
  1916 Fulda; Germany
• 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 I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Yokohama on the Tatuta Maru on 10 July 1941, bound for the USA (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Katz Adolf — German — Yokohama — USA". (Tatuta Maru, Yokohama, 10 July 1941, destination the USA.)

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