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)
• USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database sweep (2026-08-03): UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 China Office (Shanghai lists — war refugees in China, Mirrer Yeshiva student lists, Canada-visa-holder lists, Mizrachi members, AJDC Mig…