Krongold Henryk

Krongold Henryk received transit visa no. 1579 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 9 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 31.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

31

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Where this comes from

• 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 7102, Henryk Krongold, born 1909 at Lodz, who had come from Lodz; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• 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 151 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1909 at Lodz; relatives abroad: a brother-in-law, Edward Krongold, Elwood, Melbourne.
• 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 260 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 32, born at Lodz, a clerk, who arrived in Japan on 24 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 24 Feb 1941 (line 1579)
• Oral history interview with Henry Krongold — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 22580. Catalogue: born Dec 12 1909, Łódź (Łódź, Poland); born Lodz 12 Dec 1909; Bluman: No.1579 Krongold… — the interviewee may be living
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 22580: Henry Krongold — the interviewee himself — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Dec 12 1909, Łódź (Łódź, Poland)); born Lodz 12 Dec 1909; Bluman: No.1579 Krongold Henryk, clerk, 31

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