Fijalkow Szloma

Fijalkow Szloma received transit visa no. 1644 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records furniture maker, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Furniture Maker

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

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…
  1539, Pinsk, 1917, from Pinsk
• 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…
  71, 24, Pinsk; brother Harry Fijalkow 9331-103 Ave Edmonton Alberta Canada, uncle M.Feldman 1970 Watow Aw Bronx New York, cousin Paulina Resh 1654 South Drake Ave Chicago Ill.