Kazdan Rafael

Visa no. 1370 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940

Kazdan Rafael received transit visa no. 1370 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. Aged 22 in 1940.

What the register records

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for USA.

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 12 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 22, born at Cherson, who travelled from Vilnius.
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 father Chaim, both born in Kherson, on American immigration visas issued at Kobe, going to his mother in Newark, New Jersey, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy).
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 Rafal 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.