Ornstein Ernst

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…
  240, 53, Trebic, engineer, Tchechosl.; 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: No.1961 Ornstein Edith, 40, wife…
  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)
• A document held in the archive's files