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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad gives as relatives abroad a cousin, B. Gorfein, Dyzenhoff 123, Tel Aviv; A. Seidner, 349 Slifield Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 136 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 30, born at Warsaw, who arrived in Japan on 2 February 1941.
• 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 — the ledger reads: 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)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Majer Elbaum: born 1911 at Warszawa, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Wilno by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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