Cymerman Ajzyk

Cymerman Ajzyk received transit visa no. 1664 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records lawyer, aged 46.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

46

Occupation

lawyer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1667, child Ewa (10)

The journey

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

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Ewa — child, aged 10

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  Nr.920, b.Czestochowa 1894, from Lodz
• 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 Feb 1941 (line 1664)