Ornstein Edith

Ornstein Edith received transit visa no. 1961 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 40 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

checoslov.

Age in 1940

40

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife of #1962, mother of #1960, child Liane (13)

The journey

Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Liane — child, aged 13

The register recorded visa holders. It did not reliably record the wives and children who travelled on somebody else’s visa, so these people have no entry of their own and cannot be searched for. Where the archive has recovered a name, it is here.

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…
  241, 41, Bruenn, Tchechosl.
• Oral history interview with Liana Ornstein — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 54963. Catalogue: born Jan 1 1928, Brno (Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia); born Brno 1 Jan 1928; Bluman: No.1961 Ornstein Edith, 40, wife…
  USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 54963: Liana Ornstein — her mother Edith — gave a testimony (catalogue: born Jan 1 1928, Brno (Moravia-Silesia, Czechoslovakia)); born Brno 1 Jan 1928; Bluman: No.1961 Ornstein Edith, 40, wife of No.1962, mother of No.1960, child Liane (13)
• Catalogue still for the oral history of Liana Ornstein — USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, interview 54963 (the archive's public catalogue frame, 352x240); links to the testimony at vha.usc.edu/testimony/54963