Engelard Izrael

Engelard Izrael received transit visa no. 1468 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records weaver, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Weaver

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "ENGELARD Izrael" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.