Gudes Hirsz

Gudes Hirsz received transit visa no. 1537 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 8 August 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

son of #1538

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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 Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Gudes Hirsz". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 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 7766, Hirsz Gudes, born in 1915 at Mikelewczyzna, who came from Mikelewczyzna. His father is the next entry.

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