Moses Blat

Moses Blat received transit visa no. 1815 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records leather maker, aged 33.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

33

Occupation

Leather Maker

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  #51, 34, b. Lubaczow, Leather Mak., arr 3.2, from Vilno
• hunt/jdc_shanghai: JDC Shanghai migration file: BLAT Moses
  JDC Archives, New York collection AR3344, 'Complete Shanghai Migration Files' (NY_AR3344_00014), page 8: BLAT Moses, file no. 6590. Match: register No.1815 'Moses Blas' (repaired: Moses Blat), and the register independently records this person as reaching Shanghai. Both name parts agree. NOTE: the i
• The Shanghai Ledger — register of Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai, 1934-1943 (original at the Archives of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ref. 43/2003; digitised by the Library of Congress; indexed as…
  Registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai (ledger entry 1322); the register line's dropped first letters restored, the names agree — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Blat Mozes, saddler, Jewish, born 1907 Lubaczow, married; registered 2 December 1941; 352 Ward Road; Tokyo-issued passport of 23 November 1941.
• JDC Archives, New York — Shanghai Migration Files, box index (AR 33/44, file 00014): the alphabetical index to the JDC's Shanghai emigration case files, 1946-1950 — some 2,640 case files covering about 5,400 persons, each family under on…
  JDC Shanghai Migration Files, case file no. 6590 — an emigration case file opened for the family in Shanghai after the war; the file itself can be requested from the JDC Archives
• 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 1815)