Rapoport Hersz

Visa no. 1529 · Kaunas, 7 August 1940

Rapoport Hersz received transit visa no. 1529 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 7 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 27.

What the register records

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

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 4883, Hersz Rapoport, born 1913 at Warsaw, who had come from Warsaw; the year agrees with the register's age and Warsaw agrees with the archive's other records.
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 552 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 28, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 February 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1529)