Zelcer Tewja

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

• 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…
  Entry 370 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 29, born at Rowne, a clerk, Polish; relatives abroad: a cousin, Jose Junik, Calle Musilla 976, Buenos Aires.
• HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Tewja Zelcer reached Bombay on the way from Japan to Palestine. On 19 September 1941 the Tel Aviv papers HaBoker, HaTzofe and Omer printed a telegram from the committee of Polish-Jewish refugees listing 'these Polish refugees, immigrants to the Land of Israel', whose address at that time was Cook's office in Bombay; the name is on it. The archive attaches it because the list is one of the refugees on the Sugihara route, the name occurs once on the register, and the place and date fit (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Haaretz, 2 February 1942, and HaTzofe, 3 February 1942 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Tewja Zelcer is on the list of immigrants then on their way from India to the Land of Israel that Haaretz printed on 2 February 1942, as he had been on the Bombay list of September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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