Belfer Chaim

Belfer Chaim received transit visa no. 1551 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records labourer, aged 29.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

29

Occupation

Labourer

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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…
  Entry 13 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1912 at Czyzew, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, I. Belfer, 262 East Broadway, New York City; an aunt, E. Gniazda, 93 Schnekaav., Brooklyn, New York.
• 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 1551)
• 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: "Belfer Chaim". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)
• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register lists Chaim-Lejba Szloma Belfer, aged 29, born at Czyzew, a labourer, who reached Japan on 14 February 1941.

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