Ginsburg Ilia

Ginsburg Ilia received transit visa no. 1968 at the Japanese consulate in Kaunas on 19 August 1940. Aged 25 in 1940.

What the register records

Nationality as recorded

Polish

Age in 1940

25

Family, per the Kitade-Bluman list

wife Lidia (24)

Travelled with, and never given a number

• Lidia — wife, aged 24

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

• 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…
  2004; b.Kiiow 1915; from Warszawa