Kleinberger Zoltan

Kleinberger Zoltan received transit visa no. 1718 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. The register records farmer, aged 41.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

checoslov.

Age in 1940

41

Occupation

Farmer

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Margarete

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for Israel.

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 2724, Soltan Kleinberger, born 1903 at Sinsko Bela, who came from Krakow; the year, 1903, is four years from the register's compiled age (41 in 1940), so the archive shows the entry as a lead, not as an identification.
• 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 Japan for Shanghai on the Shanghai Maru, sailing from Kobe on 2 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Kleinberger Soltan — C.S.R. — Kobe". (Shanghai Maru, Kobe, 2 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)

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