Faskowicz Boruch

Faskowicz Boruch received transit visa no. 1482 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records teacher - novaredoker yeshiva bialystock, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Teacher - Novaredoker Yeshiva Bialystock

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  4508, 1916, from Puitusk
• 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…
  66, 25, Pultusk, yeshiva