Erlich Aleksander
Visa no. 1732 · Kaunas, 14 August 1940
Erlich Aleksander received transit visa no. 1732 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 14 August 1940. Aged 27 in 1940.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- Polnisch
- Age in 1940
- 27
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- husband of #1731, child Miriam (2)
The journey
Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.
Travelled with, and never given a number
- Miriam — child, aged 2
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
- 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 with his wife Ruchla and their daughter, going to Dr Dubinsky at 175 East Broadway, New York, according to the passenger list held by the National Archives (FamilySearch's copy). The list gives his birthplace as Petrograd. The wife's name and the daughter are the family the register's compilers recorded for him. - Forverts (New York), 17 April 1941 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
Aleksander Erlich, son of the Bund leader Henryk Erlich and himself an activist of the Tsukunft youth movement, came to America in April 1941 with a group of Jewish political refugees from Poland who had travelled from Vilna across Siberia and Japan, rescued by the Jewish Labor Committee (Forverts, New York, 17 April 1941; National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press). - 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 Aleksander 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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