Fajsenbaum Aleksander

Fajsenbaum Aleksander received transit visa no. 1855 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records manufacturer, aged 43.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

43

Occupation

Manufacturer

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai.

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…
  The 1940 Vilna refugee list has, at entry 8052, Aleksander Fejgenbaum, born 1897 at Siedlce, who had come from Warszawa; the year agrees with the register's compiled age, and Siedlce agrees with what the archive already holds.
• 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…
  Entry 63 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 44, born at Siedlce, a manufacturer; relatives abroad: a cousin, St. Machen, Tucuman 351, Buenos Aires; a cousin, Leo Star, Highlandsprings, Virginia, USA.
• 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 1169); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026
• La-karov ve-la-rachok, 28 March 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed by the Jewish Agency Search Bureau's bulletin La-karov ve-la-rachok on 28 March 1946, lists Aleksander Fajgenbaum: born 1897 at Siedlce, a manufacturer, arrived in 1941 from Wilno; the year, the town and the trade agree with the 1940 Vilna refugee list, the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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