Kaplan Izrael

Kaplan Izrael received transit visa no. 1671 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records rabbi - mir yeshiva, aged 26.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

26

Occupation

Rabbi - Mir Yeshiva

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

husband of #1670

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; 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…
  #2620, b.1904
• 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.80, age 37, b. Warsaw, Merchant
• 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 1671)