Gelpern Leja

Gelpern Leja received transit visa no. 1576 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. Aged 30 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

30

The journey

Reached Japan.

Where this comes from

• 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 45 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 50, born at Vilnius (Vilno), who arrived in Japan on 14 January 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 Jan 1941 (line 1576)

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