Zelcer Tewja
Visa no. 1358 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940
Zelcer Tewja received transit visa no. 1358 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 29.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polnisch Age in 1940 29 Occupation Clerk
The journey Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.
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… 6370, 1916, from Legjonowo 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…#370, 29, Rowne, Clerk, Polish; cousin Jose Junik Calle Musilla 976 Buenos Aires
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Zelcer Tewja is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
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