Adolf Herman Schatz

Adolf Herman Schatz received transit visa no. 178 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 29 July 1940. The register records clerk, aged 56.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

56

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1885 at Warszawa; relatives abroad: a wife, Antonina Schetz, care of Dr Lengh, Merci Hospital, Desmoines, Jawa (Des Moines, Iowa); a cousin, N. Spear, 14 East 74th Avenue, New York City.
• 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 605 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 56, born at Warsaw, a clerk, who arrived in Japan from Vilnius on 13 February 1941.
• 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 Fusimi Maru on 21 May 1941, bound for Bombay on the way to Palestine (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of departures, May 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Schotz Adolf Herman". (Fusimi Maru, Kobe, 21 May 1941.)

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