Kazdan Chaim

Kazdan Chaim received transit visa no. 1369 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 57.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

57

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

father of #1370

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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…
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• 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…
  Entry 11 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 57, born at Cherson, a journalist, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 5 December 1940.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru with his son Rafael, a journalist born in Kherson, going to his wife at 35 Leslie Street, Newark, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy).
• Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Chaim Szloma Kazdan, chairman of the Central Yiddish School Organisation in Poland, came to America in April 1941 with a group of Jewish political refugees from Poland who had travelled from Vilna across Siberia and Japan, rescued by the Jewish Labor Committee (Forverts, New York, 17 April 1941; National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Chaim Kazdan, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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