Lew Josef

Lew Josef received transit visa no. 1393 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lecker yeshiva, aged 16.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

16

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lecker Yeshiva

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• List of Refugees, Vilna, 1940 — JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00876. The contemporary register of Polish Jewish refugees in Lithuania, running to more than nine thousand numbered entries; the fullest independent check…
  3347; b.Warszawa 1919; from maj.Czestoniew
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 13 Feb 1941 (line 1393)