Szamaj Zelcer

Szamaj Zelcer received transit visa no. 1797 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records technician, aged 34.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polnisch

Age in 1940

34

Occupation

Technician

The journey

Reached Japan; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for Burma.

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…
  6371, Pociejow, 1923, from Pociejdw
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database — the Flight and Rescue electronic dataset (source 20725): USHMM's own transcription of the Kaunas register, 2,140 persons with citizenship, visa type, iss…
  USHMM Flight and Rescue dataset: arrived in Japan 3 Feb 1941 (line 1797)