Gothajner Josef

Gothajner Josef received transit visa no. 1715 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records tailor, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Tailor

The journey

Reached Japan; 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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 1927, Josef Gothajner, born 1907 at Zduńska Wola, who came from Łódź; the year agrees with the register's compiled age.
• Manifest of alien passengers, SS Kamakura Maru, sailing from Yokohama March 27th 1941, arrived San Francisco April 10th 1941 (US National Archives, M1410, film 369; read on FamilySearch's copy)
  He reached San Francisco on 10 April 1941 on the Kamakura Maru from Yokohama, going to David Dubinsky at the American Federation of Labor in New York for a stay of a year, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list gives his birthplace as Zduńska Wola and names his wife, left behind in Łódź, as Cypra.
• Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Josef Gothajner, a tailor and socialist activist from Łódź, was one of the 29 Jewish political refugees from Poland whose arrival in New York, by way of Siberia and Japan with the help of the Jewish Labor Committee, the Forverts reported on 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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