Majer Elbaum

Majer Elbaum received transit visa no. 1497 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

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

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…
  cous.B.Gorfein Dyzenhoff 123 Tel Aviv; A.Seidner 349 Slifield av.Brooklyn N.Y.
• 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…
  #136, age 30, b. Warsaw, arr 2.2
• 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 1328); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Elbaum Majer, born 1911 Warsaw; with his brother Symcha Binem; Tokyo-issued passport of 21 November 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 25 Feb 1941 (line 1497)