Langsam Elias

Langsam Elias received transit visa no. 1474 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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 75 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 26, born at Prague, a tailor, Polish; relatives abroad: a sister, B. Feldman, 644 Carlos Peligrini, Buenos Aires.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Fusimi Maru on 21 May 1941, bound for Bombay on the way to Palestine (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Langsam Elias Aleksander". (Fusimi Maru, Kobe, 21 May 1941.)
• 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 7297, Langsam Elias Aleksander, born 1915, who came from Tarnów; the year agrees with the age the register gives.

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