Phastag Dawid
Visa no. 1923 · Kaunas, 19 August 1940
Phastag Dawid received transit visa no. 1923 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records rabbinical student - mir yeshiva?, aged 23.
What the register records Nationality as recorded Polish Age in 1940 23 Occupation Rabbinical Student - Mir Yeshiva? The journey Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for USA.
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… 9055; ditto; b.1916 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 1439); the names closely match this register line — approved by the owner's review, 19 Aug 2026 — LEDGER ENTRY READ: Phastag Dawid, born 2 September 1916 Warsaw, single; with his brother Mojsze (entry 1438, No.1953); Tokyo-issued passport of 3 December 1941. Open this entry in the full register →
Phastag Dawid is one of 2,140 people recorded in the surviving register of the transit
visas Chiune Sugihara issued at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1940.
The Sugihara Visa Archive · how this was compiled
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