Begin Dawid Jakiel

Begin Dawid Jakiel received transit visa no. 1266 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 6 August 1940. Aged 20 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

20

Where this comes from

• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Dawid Begin, aged 19, of Brześć, who was in Wilno during the war; his age and his town agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 622, Begin Dawid, born 1920 at Brześć, who came from Brześć; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.

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