Tajch Jakob

Tajch Jakob received transit visa no. 1859 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 17 August 1940. The register records merchant, aged 32.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Lithuanien

Age in 1940

32

Occupation

Merchant

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

plus one family member

The journey

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

Where this comes from

• 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…
  The Kobe Jewish Community's refugee register: aged 33, born at Lodz, a merchant, who arrived in Japan from Kaunas on 2 February 1941.
• 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 names a father, N. Ch. Teich, 41 Geula Street, Tel Aviv.
• JDC Archives, New York, collection AR 33/44 file 53 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's returns to the JDC, 1941; Set I, item 00761) — Set I pp. 5–7 — "List… — "List of persons who left Japan for Shanghai in the month of July 1941", Nos. 1–15
  He left Japan for Shanghai on the Taiyo Maru, sailing from Kobe on 18 July 1941 (the Jewish Community of Kobe's list of persons who left Japan for Shanghai, July 1941 (JDC Archives, AR 33/44 file 53)). The list reads: "Teich Jakub Gedlja — ″[Polish]". (Taiyo Maru, Kobe, 18 July 1941, destination Shanghai.)
• 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…
  Jakob Tajch registered with the Polish Consulate in Shanghai in 1941 as Jakób-Gdalia Teich, a merchant born at Łódź on 16 August 1908, living at 54 Chusan Road. (Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, the Shanghai consulate's register, digitised by the Library of Congress.)

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