Jozef Kotlarski

Jozef Kotlarski received transit visa no. 1836 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 16 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - lubavitsch yeshiva, aged 23.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

23

Occupation

Rabbinical Student - Lubavitsch Yeshiva

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; aided by the Polish ambassador Tadeusz Romer; registered in Kobe for USA.

Where this comes from

• 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 13 Feb 1941 (line 1836)
• "California, San Francisco, Passenger Lists, 1893-1953", FamilySearch — index entry for Hersz Josef Kotlarski, 1941: born about 1917, Poland. Digitised from NARA microfilm publication M1410 (passenger lists of vessels arriving at San Fra…
  FamilySearch's index of the San Francisco passenger lists, read by the archive on 20 September 2026, has Hersz Josef Kotlarski, born about 1917 in Poland, arriving at San Francisco in 1941. The register's compiled line gives 1917, and the two agree. The name occurs once on the register, and a Polish-born passenger landing at San Francisco in 1941 fits the route through Japan, so the entry is taken as this person's under the archive's rule of 19 September 2026 for records from the route.
• USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database sweep (… — war refugees in China, Mirrer Yeshiva student lists, Canada-visa-holder lists, Mizrachi members, AJDC Migration Dept processed list from Apr 1946) + Flight and Rescue digital index

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