Lifschutz Simon

Lifschutz Simon received transit visa no. 1446 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 35.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

35

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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 8347, Simon Lifschitz, born 1905 at Zolkiew, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Żółkiew agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: Polish; relatives abroad: a brother, Majer Lifschutz, Geula 25, Haifa; an uncle, Isak Majer Rad, Dublin, Philadelphia, USA; a cousin, Sender Rad, care of Hia, 25 Lafaette, New York City.
• 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 426 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 36, born at Zolkiew, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 2 February 1941.
• 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 2 Feb 1941 (line 1446)
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Taiyo Maru on 18 July 1941, bound for Burma (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Lifschuetz Szymon". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Burma.)

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