Heyman Jerzy

Heyman Jerzy received transit visa no. 1592 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 39.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

39

Occupation

Clerk

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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 2269, Jerzy Hajman, born 1901, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and the town with what the archive already holds for this line.
• 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 101 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1901 at Lodz; relatives abroad: an aunt, A. Landau, 104 West 80th Street, New York; a cousin, H. Eliasberg MD, 420 West End Avenue, New York; a cousin, Paul Lourie, 1519 West 36th Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
• 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 273 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 40, born at Lodz, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 February 1941.
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1330); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 31 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 31 March 1946, lists Jerzy Hejman: born 1901 at Lodz, a merchant, arrived in 1941 from Vilnius by way of Siberia; the year, the town and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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