Ornstein Ernst
Visa no. 1962 · Kaunas, 19 August 1940
Ornstein Ernst received transit visa no. 1962 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. The register records mech engineer, aged 43.
What the register records
- Nationality as recorded
- checoslov.
- Age in 1940
- 43
- Occupation
- Mech Engineer
- Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list
- husband of #1961, father of #1960
The journey
Reached Japan; reached Shanghai; registered in Kobe for South America.
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…
Entry 240 of the Kobe community's list of refugees and their relatives abroad: aged 53, born at Trebic, an engineer, Czechoslovak; relatives abroad: a nephew, Francis Lederer, Sanoga Parc, Los Angeles. - 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:… — the interviewee may be living
USC Shoah Foundation VHA interview 54963: Liana Ornstein — her father Ernst — 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) - La-karov ve-la-rachok, 3 October 1946 — the Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Press)
The Far Eastern Palestine Committee's list of Jewish refugees in Shanghai, printed in La-karov ve-la-rachok on 3 October 1946, has Ernst Ornstein of Bruenn, a merchant, who came in 1941 from Lithuania by way of Siberia, with his wife Edith, born in 1900, and their children. - A visa page of Abraham-Adam Silberberg (No. 842): the Sugihara transit visa of 2 August 1940 and Zwartendijk's Curaçao declaration No. 1962 of 1 August 1940 — a second copy. Image courtesy of passport-collector.com (Tom Topol).
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