Erlich Wiktor

Erlich Wiktor received transit visa no. 1684 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records journalist, aged 25.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

25

Occupation

Journalist

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Iza (20), son of #1727

The journey

Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Canada.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Iza — wife, aged 20

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

• 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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1914 at Leningrad, Polish; relatives abroad: an aunt, M. Geshgorn, Villensby Avenue 17, Hollywood.
• 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…
  Entry 144 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 27, born at Petrograd, a student.
• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1684)
• Oral history interview with Victor Erlich — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, oral history interviews of the Flight and Rescue collection, RG-50.494.0010, recorded 1999. Linked; the Museum's still from the interview is shown on th…
  He recorded an oral history for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Flight and Rescue project in 1999, as Victor Erlich. It begins with him in Warsaw on 1 September 1939. The interview is linked here and its still is on the Testimonies page.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Yokohama on the Heian Maru ("Heyan M.") on 17 July 1941, bound for Canada (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "″ Wiktor". (Heian Maru ("Heyan M."), Yokohama, 17 July 1941, destination Canada.)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Viktor Erlich, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.

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