Ginzburg Morduch received transit visa no. 1335 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 33.
What the register records
Nationality as recorded
Polnisch
Age in 1940
33
Occupation
Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva
Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
wife Zlata-Malka (26), child Ester (0)
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
Zlata-Malka — wife, aged 26
Ester — child, aged 0
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
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.79, 1906 Lipniszki
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… 156/195, 35, Lipniszki, Rabbi, arr 25.2, from Kovno