Gitein Lazar

Gitein Lazar received transit visa no. 1400 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 36.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

36

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Malka Perla (29)

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Malka Perla — wife, aged 29

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 2086, Lazar Gitein, born 1904 at Łódź, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 91 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 37, born at Lodz, a merchant; relatives abroad: an aunt, Hela Rosenberg, care of Cwi Iskin, Rehov Mea Shearim 43, Tel Aviv; an aunt, Fela Rosenstein, 4305 15th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• The Jewish Advocate (Bombay), 3 February 1946 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: in February 1946 a Lazar Gitein, by then writing from New York, sent his best wishes 'to all friends and business patrons' through an advertisement in Bombay's Jewish Advocate (3 February 1946) (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• HaBoker, HaTzofe, Omer and Haaretz, 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  A possible record, not yet confirmed as this person: a Gitein travelling with his wife is on the list of Polish refugees in Bombay waiting for their aliyah that the Tel Aviv papers printed on 19 September 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press); the given name printed there is Chaim, so it is shown as a lead, not as Lazar Gitein.

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