Gothelf Chaim

Gothelf Chaim received transit visa no. 1612 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 12 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 24.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

24

Occupation

Merchant

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

Where this comes from

• 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…
  106, 25, Siedlce; cousins Menachem Liwerant Kirjat Chaim Rchow 1/18 Haifa, Cypora Goldhamer 2672 Generalfleves st. Montevideo
• S.S. Manila Maru, Kobe to South Africa, 29 May 1941 — list of refugee passengers, HICEM meeting half the cost of the passages. JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44, file 00053, item 00766. One sheet carries four sailings; this is…
  Listed as "GOTHELF Chaim" among the refugee passengers who left Kobe to South Africa on the Manila Maru. The compiled register gives Palestine for this line, which is not where this sailing was bound. The identification rests on the name alone and is offered as a possibility, not a finding.