Klinger Izrael

Klinger Izrael received transit visa no. 1415 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 21.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

21

Occupation

Clerk

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1568

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1410) — the consulate's register of Polish citizens who reached the city, 1934-1943 — the ledger reads: Klinger Izrael Fajwel, office clerk, born 25 January 1919 Stawiszyn; 805/19 East Seward Road with his brother Moszek (entry 1408); Tokyo-issued passport of 5 December 1941 — found on reading the page.
• 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1415)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Israel-Feiwel Klinger: born 1919 at Staniszyn, a clerk, arrived in 1941 from Lithuania; the year and the trade agree with the archive's compiled register (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 Izrael Klinger, born in 1919, of Gdynia, who was in Wilno during the war, and beside it a card for Mojsze Klinger, born in 1914, also of Gdynia; the year and his brother agree with this register line. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• 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 3224, Klinger Izrael Fajwel, born 1919 at Stawiszyn, who came from Gdynia; the year agrees with the age the register gives, and the town with what the archive already holds.

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