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…
  No.27, age 34, b. Wolbrom, Merchant, arr 25.1., from Vilno
• 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 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: 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)