Mecyslaw Glass

Mecyslaw Glass received transit visa no. 159 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. Aged 37 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

37

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #524 , wife, child

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Australia.

Where this comes from

• 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 3 Feb 1941 (line 159)
• 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 I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Kobe on the Canberra Maru on 2 July 1941, bound for Australia (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Glass Mieczyslaw — Polish — Kobe — Australia, followed by ″ Zofja Irena, ″ Stefan". (Canberra Maru, Kobe, 2 July 1941, destination Australia.)

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