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…
  No 13; 1912 Czyzew; Polish; uncle I.Belfer 262 East Broadway N.Y.C.; aunt E.Gniazda 93 Schnekaav. Brooklyn N.Y.
• 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)