Genszaft Izaak
Visa no. 1695 · Kaunas, 13 August 1940
Genszaft Izaak received transit visa no. 1695 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 13 August 1940. The register records clerk, aged 29.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 29
- Occupation
- Clerk
The journey
Reached Japan; registered in Kobe for Mexico.
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…
Entry 75 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1912 at Warszawa, Polish; relatives abroad: an uncle, M. Glazer Stolarski, Mexico. - 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 192 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 29, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 14 February 1941. - 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 14 Feb 1941 (line 1695) - United States, Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957 — FamilySearch, index entries read 24 October 2026
FamilySearch's index of the border crossings from Mexico into the United States, read on 24 October 2026, has Isaak Genszaft, born at Warsaw in 1912, a Pole, crossing into Texas on 2 February 1946, and the Laredo arrival manifests have him the same year, aged 33. The register has Izaak Genszaft, a clerk born in 1912 at Warsaw whose next destination after Japan was Mexico, where an uncle lived. The surname occurs once on the register and the given name, the birth year and Warsaw agree, so the entry is taken as this man.
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