Icchok Chaim Lapon

Icchok Chaim Lapon received transit visa no. 1697 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; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Palestine.

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 179: aged 29, born Warsaw, clerk; relatives abroad: a friend, A. Sztybel, Barbizon Plaza Hotel, Central Park South, New York; an uncle, Rafal Schucht, 31 rue Nabi, Alexandria, Egypt; a cousin, A. Zuckerman, 1530 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.
• 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… — "List of refugees who left Japan to places other than Shanghai in the month of May 1941", Nos. 1–321
  He left Kobe on the Manila Maru on 29 May 1941, bound for South Africa (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Lapon Icchok Chaim". (Manila Maru, Kobe, 29 May 1941.)

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