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…
  #2086, Lodz, 1904, from Lodz T/L
• 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…
  91, 37, Lodz, merchant; aunt Hela Rosenberg Cwi Iskin Tel Aviv Rchow Mea Shearim 43, aunt Fela Rosenstein 4305 15 Ave Brooklyn NY