Wiecha Chaim

Wiecha Chaim received transit visa no. 1361 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 23 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Canada.

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 355 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 24, born at Wysokie, Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, M. Wiecha, Bejt Frydman, Rehov Zwulun 15, Hadar Hacarmel, Haifa.

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