Dafner Jakob

Dafner Jakob received transit visa no. 1602 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 10 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Australia.

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 27 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 34, born at Wolbrom, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 25 January 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 1258); the names closely match on the repaired reading — matched on the repaired register name, approved under the owner's review of 19 Aug 2026 — the ledger reads: Dafner Jakub, merchant, born 1907 Wolbrom, married; registered 29 October 1941; 475/8 Avenue Joffre, tel. 84869; Warsaw passport of 20 April 1939 extended by the British Legation in Kaunas 9 January and 17 July 1940 and by the Embassy in Tokyo 25 July 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 25 Jan 1941 (line 1602)
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 21 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 21 March 1946, lists Jacob Dafner: born 1907 at Lodz, a merchant, arrived from Poland; the year and the trade agree with the Kobe Jewish community's refugee register (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).
• 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 1101, Jakub Dafner, born in 1907 at Lodz, who came from Katowice.

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