Lanchart Izaak

Lanchart Izaak received transit visa no. 1857 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records student, aged 18.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

18

Occupation

Student

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1858

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  1922 Altona; Polish; uncle S.Grosman, 1700 N.Paysomm Baltimore U.S.A.
• 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…
  #404, 19, b. Altona, Student, from Alytus
• 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 1308); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Lanchart Izak, born 26 June 1922 Altona (Hamburg), single; 810/35 Seward Road; on a passport issued by the Polish Consulate in Hamburg 20 April 1936 (entered on his father's passport of 1934) — expired 30 June 1941 when he registered 26 November 1941.
• 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 1857)