Surazski Simon

Surazski Simon received transit visa no. 1364 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - novaredoker yeshiva bialystock, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Novaredoker Yeshiva Bialystock

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 316 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 30, born at Siemiatycze, a yeshiva student, Polish.

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