Lanchart Leo

Lanchart Leo received transit visa no. 1858 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records scholar, aged 16.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

16

Occupation

Scholar

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

brother of #1857

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…
  The Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: born 1934 at Altona, Polish.
• 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…
  Entry 403 of the Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 17, born at Altona, a scholar, who arrived in Japan from Alytus on 13 February 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 1858)
• Yad Vashem Archives, Jerusalem — the card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941
  Yad Vashem's card file of Jewish refugees from Poland who found refuge in various countries, 1939–1941, has a card for Leo Landchard, who was in Wilno during the war. The archive attaches it under its rule of 19 September 2026: the card file is a record of the refugees in Wilno, where the road through Sugihara's visas began; the full name occurs once on the register; and the card places the person in Wilno in 1939–41, on the road to Sugihara's visas. Credit: Yad Vashem Archives.
• The B'nai B'rith Messenger (Los Angeles), 23 April 1948 (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
  Leon and Izaak Lanchart, brothers born at Altona and registered at Kobe in February 1941, later reached the United States. The Los Angeles B'nai B'rith Messenger of 23 April 1948 printed a photograph and caption about two brothers, Leon and Isak Lanchart, who had recently come to the United States from the Far East with the help of the United Service for New Americans. The paper says they had been commended by the United States Army for their work in cleaning up a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp when American troops entered Nanking, and that on arrival they were reunited with a sister and two brothers who had come from Germany. The archive attaches the caption because the two given names are the register's, the surname occurs only on these two lines, the brothers' German origin fits their birth at Altona, and the route from China fits the Shanghai ledger (B'nai B'rith Messenger, Los Angeles, 23 April 1948, National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press).

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